How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by jgalt212 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @04:16PM (#12287153)

I look at consultants like home improvement, if you can spend $100 and improve the value of your home by $70, you've basically won.

As an aside, there should be a JP Power rankings for consultancies. Is there?

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by ajb on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:02PM (#12287555)

Maybe this is a typo, but the way you wrote it, you lost $30.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by avs733 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:12PM (#12288232)

no, it very much depends on what your time is worth and the time it would take you vs. someone you pay to do a job.

If I pay someone $100 to raise the value of my home $70, but it would take me 10hrs and I value my time at $100 an hour then it would cost me $1,000 to do what I hired someone to do for $100

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by poikniok on Monday August 15, 2016 @12:15AM (#12288598)

Why would you do it in the first place? By definition your EV is $30 higher by just not doing anything.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by jgalt212 on Monday August 15, 2016 @02:57PM (#12292591)

a combination of "this time it's gonna be different", and I need some on-demand expertise.

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