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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by totalZero on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:31PM (#12802502)
They have made buckets of dough at the height of American surveillance activity and now they want to cash out while the getting is good.
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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by cossatot on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:25PM (#12802700)
What indication do you have that the surveillance state will shrink in the near future?
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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by totalZero on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:12AM (#12802855)
It doesn't have to shrink for Palantir to lose share to newcomers in a growing industry.
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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by stock_toaster on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:49AM (#12802993)
Or for certain classes of their customers (maybe governments?) to develop in-house solutions that become "good enough" that they expect to lose those customers in the future.
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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by bogomipz on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:24AM (#12805305)
I'm not sure I see the "good getting" changing any time soon. If anything I believe surveillance capitalism is here to stay and unfortunately increase.
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