Re:How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City
by bogomipz on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:28PM
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Almost as hilarious as your strawman argument. Palantir was started with the explicit mission of aiding the surveillance-industrial complex. Mongo Inc was started with explicit mission of selling cloud databases(PaaS) to the general public.
“Basically,” Thiel explains, “I thought that some of the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud”—which at one point posed an existential threat to PayPal—“could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism.”
Source: http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strate...
“Basically,” Thiel explains, “I thought that some of the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud”—which at one point posed an existential threat to PayPal—“could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism.”
For contrast: Mongo Inc's Eliot Horowitz: https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/mongodb-co-creator-explains-why...