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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by jeron on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:57PM (#46638273)
>because the vendor is good at navigating the sales and compliance labyrinth to secure deals.

it's not just that. Alexandr Wang from Scale AI once said in a talk that they had to compete against Palantir for a gov contract. Palantir's salesmen have a high closing rate because they sell the software as if it were written by God itself. It's one hell of a sales strategy

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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by dylan604 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:43PM (#46639762)
> It's one hell of a sales strategy

What happens when there's a bug in the software? Would that mean God is fallible after all? Could this be the plot line of Dogma++?

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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by red-iron-pine on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:16PM (#46651605)
"we have 2394328423 devs on standby able to fix it if/when it happens. five 9s for all apps"

of course when shit actually hits the fan you'll still wait 4 days for a response

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Re:‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods ... by senordevnyc on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:51PM (#46642058)
What exactly is the incredible sales strategy here, overhyping to the point of blatant dishonesty? That's hardly unique...
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