How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by whamlastxmas on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:13PM (#12293058)

>founding and backing ventures with a net-negative social value

According to his Wikipage, the major things he's done: Paypal, Facebook, Y Combinator, and a couple investment/VC/Angel ventures. None of these are net-negative social value in my opinion, or at least not any more so than virtually any other big business on the planet. He's also backed an impressive number of philanthropic endeavors.

Your comment comes across as someone's angry at Thiel because of the Gawker lawsuit and/or Trump endorsement.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by dredmorbius on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:06PM (#12293453)

The factual value of whether or a relevant comparison is justified or not is open to question. That would turn the attack into an unjustified one.

But not ad hom.

I'm not convinced of PayPal and Facebook's net social value. They're quite mixed, though I'll allow transformative.

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