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Comment by nceqs3 | Hacker News Reader

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.

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If 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.

What 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

What's funny is that Thiel is a believer of nominative determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172475

Critical support to Palantir in their quest to steal CIA valor.

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