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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:54PM (#16693890)
An analogy to this is why "bad boys" tend to do well at the dating game....

A Biker/Gang Member may not be attractive to most people, but to the portion of the population that prefer someone like that, they have much fewer anti-social males to choose from, and those individuals can do well at the bar.

Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by machinelearning on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:40AM (#16696331)
Or in Thiel's own(?) words: "Competition is for losers"