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Re:How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City by gscott on Friday September 23, 2016 @07:49PM (#12568715)
The really hard part is creating a company that gets all of the data sources like the camera readers and videos from police cars that go to Palantir. Having that data (+ more that I don't know about) pretty much locks out other vendors because Palantir can bring more to the table besides processing the cities data.
Re:How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City by jonathankoren on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:59PM (#12569399)
I don't know if you can say it locks out vendors. Earlier this year, the reports were that Palantir had problems retaining commercial contracts. With their "forward deployed engineers", the image that's emerged is that Palantir is a contractor house with a patina of spies.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silico...