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Comment by willis936 | Hacker News Reader

Why are so many entities dealing with Palantir? They are a poison pill for customers.

Palantir is a glorified IT consulting company. You tell them "I want a system to manage patient records" and they will dispatch a team of engineers fresh out of college to build it for you while charging top dollar. They are able to get government & military contracts because of lobbying and influence, but generally everything you see about them online is marketing.

Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting company...

Cambridge Analytica was much more successful as a marketing company, vastly overstating their influence and impact

They don't need marketing. It's very well known what they do and for whom they work.

I always tell people this - that Palantir is just IBM. Instant hate feedbacks from both left and right.

Left: They kill babies and have your poop data.

Right: They are so much more than that. That have super intelligence AI with drone puppetry. Have you seen the leaked dashboards!

Is IBM really the company we want to hold up as a moral standard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

They deliver on contracts or else they wouldn’t keep getting them

They don't have in-house talent to implement what they want. The same reasons they used to hire Deloitte/EY/KPMG/PwC. Palantir is one rung up from those places when it comes to talent/ability to deliver.

+1. Think of it like a consulting shop that can deliver customized software instead of just slide decks and excel workbooks.

Which customers? Outside of the HN bubble, very few consumers know or care which entities are using Palantir.

With the controversial contracts they already have with the US, I think they had enough and should keep it that way...

Just saying.

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