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Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by hinkley on Saturday December 16, 2023 @03:45PM (#38667501)
How could anyone who has read or seen The Lord of the Rings think that a Palantir was anything but an existential threat?

Not all of the lost seeing stones have been accounted for. We don’t know who else may be listening.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by bitwize on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:10AM (#38718456)
> How could anyone who has read or seen The Lord of the Rings think that a Palantir was anything but an existential threat?

If they want to be Sauron.

That's Palantir Technologies' customer base.

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