Diego F. Chamorro

contrarian's contrarian

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

the quality of communication is as important as the quality of the idea

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

one of life's great pleasures is working with someone who makes you realize the ceiling in your head was actually the first floor

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

management done right is mostly about the work you did prior to them joining AKA hiring the right people

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

pain point -> value proposition -> implement -> validate -> repeat, again and again and again

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

value prop bro value prop is all that matters. Value proposition for the ones in the back. Our value prop. Their value prop.

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

@ricardochamor em dash lol

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

AI's fatal flaw is that complexity doesn't cause it pain. human engineers eventually say “fuck this, let's simplify.” AI just adds another abstraction layer. judgement is forged by contraints.

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

@hilbertspaess have u considered just pressing the power button?

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

The bitter lesson in life is that the great ideas actually come from the iterative process and grind rather than pre-ordained genius

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

“If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.”

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[geoff @geoffwoo]

Seizing and transferring money from provably good capital allocators (i.e. self-made billionaires who have created industries and employed tens of thousands of people)

and handing it over to provably bad / corrupt capital pissers (i.e. tens of billions vaporized on non-existent high speed rail and non-profit grifts)

is a bad idea

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

News: Waymo just announce driverless testing in Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Meanwhile, legal barriers are preventing expansion to Boston, NYC, or Washington DC. Is this the future Democrats want?

[Trae Stephens @traestephens]

And this is why the government can’t recruit/retain top tech talent. Embarrassing.

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

It's actually crazy how Democrats have one trick

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Lee Kuan Yew edit goes insanely hard

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Beavers pause while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree falls away from them

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

@elonmusk regulate regulations

[Diego F. Chamorro @DFCPrime]

@elonmusk regulate regulations