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I still cannot help but look at Palantir as a company that just sends $ to the "oligarchs". I still wonder what real value Palantir provides the US Gov.
After reading the article, are they looking for cheap tech labor. Is that because no one in tech wants to join the military due to pay ?
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Different deployments of Palantir Foundry exist in the US gov't/military and do provide real data science/analytics value.
> After reading the article, are they looking for cheap tech labor. Is that because no one in tech wants to join the military due to pay ?
Cyber in the military has abysmal retention because of the pay. You can get an immediate ~$50k pay raise doing the same work as soon as you leave the military.
Palantir is CIA-founded
> I still wonder what real value Palantir provides the US Gov.
Their "product" has always been some hacky database joins behind a web app with a dark mode interface that makes the baby brains at DOD feel like they're in a 90s hacker movie