Palantir raises $680M

Re:Palantir raises $680M by sremani on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:20AM (#10715699)

I disagree with the analogy. Human population will not grow from 1 billion to 7 billion because of data, that is the kind of change we got with oil. Oil is a hard asset, data is not entirely hard asset.

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Re:Palantir raises $680M by wbc on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:05AM (#10715812)

can you explain how oil enabled human pop to go from 1b to 7b?

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Re:Palantir raises $680M by mchaver on Friday December 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#10715943)

Not sure why you are getting down voted. It's a valid question.

Cheap, abundant energy makes in cheaper to produce and transport necessities for human life and allows us to invest more time into researching and improving the quality and availability of those necessities (food, clothing, housing, medicine, etc.).

Haven't read through all of this, but it seems to have some similar ideas. http://www.resilience.org/stories/2009-04-20/peak-people-int...

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Re:Palantir raises $680M by dnissley on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:33AM (#10716697)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

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Re:Palantir raises $680M by angry_octet on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:00PM (#10719068)

Industrial fertiliser and transport, plastics, energy, etc.

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