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Re:Palantir enables immigration agents to look up informatio... by piker on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:04PM (#13897478)
Very good points. Any insight as to how Palantir learned so much about its customers' problems? Does Palantir employ a good number of its customers' former analysts, etc.? Just curious how this is done so well in practice.

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Re:Palantir enables immigration agents to look up informatio... by astronautjones on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:59PM (#13897953)
It was funded by In-Q-Tel (the CIA's VC firm) from the start
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Re:Palantir enables immigration agents to look up informatio... by pcsanwald on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:34PM (#13898189)
They behaved basically like a consulting shop. send tons of "forward deployed engineers" onsite.
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