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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by samaxe on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:11AM (#24553136)
Rarely is it someone diving into something questionable. It is typically either 1) a slow culture change, and one day find yourself sitting at your desk doing horrible things. 2) naivety and person is unaware going into the situation, but now they are in it. It is super easy to sit back from afar after the culture change, after the info is public, to say “I would never work there/do that”.
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by greenduck on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:18AM (#24553185)
Certainly. To be clear, I'm not describing "how horrible" people are who originally joined it. I'm saying that today, with what we know and the problems we see growing around the world, especially the rise of authoritarianism, we have some reserves about working for a company like Palantir.
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by machello13 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:24AM (#24553644)
I think you're giving engineers too much credit. I know a people who work at Palantir despite fully knowing what they do, and I know a lot of other engineers who, in 2020, would love to work there.
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