alt Hacker NewsI don’t get this hysteria about palantir. They’re basically just a consulting company that turns your random excel sheets and old databases into something you can search.
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It's not about what the company does but about who they are, and the hatred is ancient.
This omits the crucial part of which old databases they do this to when working for e.g. the US federal government, and what the result is used for.
When it came to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust, IBM also just "did the databases".
lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
You could have at least read Palatir's wiki before commenting.
Here are some hightlights:
> Karp and Zamiska argue that American technological dominance requires deeper integration of Silicon Valley and defense interests.
> Karp contends that China operates with fewer ethical constraints than American defense companies, making technological leadership essential for national security
> According to the Journal, for two years the company continuously revised its technology based on the demands of analysts from the intelligence agencies, introduced to them by In-Q-Tel.[1
Do you need more? That's a single paragraph.
The issue is they don't then fuck off, they instead charge ever increasing rates yearly to maintain that simple port an 18 year old could do.