I tried to explain to relatives that no, your phone is not listening to you to show you ads, but all I managed to do was convince them that I was in on it

nothing, literally nothing, is stopping you from creating a new smart contract language and calling it Turgidity

I heard about Erewhon for the first time yesterday

wouldn't it be funny if Voyager came back to Earth but from the opposide direction it was sent?

massive new version of halmos released: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/halmos-v0-3-0-release-highlights/

I won't rehash the points here, but happy to do an AMA

if you're a cryptographer and don't name your kids Alice and Bob, what are you even doing?

new Lane 8 mixtape just dropped, it's officially summer:

new Lane 8 mixtape just dropped, it's officially summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWzISaUpoH0

went for a test at labcorp and didn't receive a single compliment about my vascularity

down bad

name a problem that can't be solved by another toolbar

can't believe I made it this far in life without knowing what a "2 by 4" is

some left-coded to right-coded reversals I have witnessed in my lifetime:

free speech
protectionism
friendliness with Russia
vaccine skepticism

The only parasite that functionally replaces an organ. The tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua) is one of the strangest and most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom. It enters through the gills of a fish and attaches itself to the base of the tongue. It severs the blood vessels, causing the tongue to wither and fall off. Then it replaces the tongue, attaching itself to the stump and functioning like a prosthetic tongue. The fish can still eat and live normally—with the louse acting as its new tongue.

watching a wasp struggle to get to me through a window screen

"don't reinvent the wheel" is a mind trap

obviously someone has to reinvent the wheel sometimes

how do I send an amber alert to the neighborhood when my CI fails?

QC an album that gets zero skips 

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

the only thing that can stop a bad guy with an AI is a good guy with an AI

In this post, we provide a full breakdown of MEV, including examples, and more.

📝: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/mev-explained/

“Jeff, how old are you?”

Me: this was my high school cell phone

"karma, how old are you?" Me: this was my high school cell phone

karmacoma

@karma