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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by bri3d on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:53PM (#46638227)
In what way? I'm genuinely curious; I would describe an engineer who is provided to build a customer product alongside a customer as either a "contractor" or a "consultant," depending mostly on their employer. A security clearance just changes what customers and products they work for.
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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by vscode-rest on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:57PM (#46638276)
Contractor makes sense, consultant is a bit weird because the typical understanding is that a consultant comes in to share knowledge, not build product.
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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by tym0 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:50PM (#46639105)
Then you're not familiar with software consultancy because that's exactly what they do.
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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by vscode-rest on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:47PM (#46639791)
Ah ok then let’s just call them contractors because that’s what exactly what they do.
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