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The way Palantir talks about the CIA really rubs me the wrong way. For years, they would leak to journalists that Palantir "found bin Laden" when, of course, it
by nceqs3 2y ago
The way Palantir talks about the CIA really rubs me the wrong way. For years, they would leak to journalists that Palantir "found bin Laden" when, of course, it had nothing to do with finding him. Several CIA employees died trying to find Bin Laden, all for some schmucks in Silicon Valley to try and capitalize on their sacrifice.
- alephnerd 2y agoIf you want to give a Silicon Valley company kudos for Bin Laden, give it to Cisco, VMWare, and Equinix. Palantir's whole "CIA" marketing schitck appeared to be a ploy to build a strong reputation to help hiring. At the end of the day, they're just another Datalake company that makes money off professional services, except Databricks and Snowflake can actually execute.
- mrguyorama 2y agoWhat more do you expect from a project from Peter Thiel, which is named after the most evil guy's magic all seeing orb from LoTR, which is explicitly made for governments to target whatever they want to call "bad guys" by slurping up as much data as possible from people who shouldn't be collecting it in the first place? Dude has a dictator complex. Of course he fully the embraces the "just fucking lie and make money" ethos
- hayst4ck 2y agoWhat's funny is that Thiel is a believer of nominative determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172475
- l3mure 2y agoCritical support to Palantir in their quest to steal CIA valor.