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Palantir being the exception that proves the rule.
by arebop 10y ago
Palantir being the exception that proves the rule.
- guelo 10y agoDoubt they're the only one. For all the talk of noble ideals in SV the only real principle is money.
- tyingq 10y agoFacebook and others are, at the very least, aware of the purpose behind those various "Quizzes" that are posted using their advertising platforms. Edit: A reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-quiz.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda...
- brian-armstrong 10y agoPedantic aside: This isn't the right way to use this phrase. The exception that proves the rule is the data point that demonstrates that it makes sense to call it a rule and not just something which is always true. 'Dogs bark' is proven a rule by cats meowing, not by a dog that doesn't bark
- devinj 10y agoI don't understand how cats meowing proves anything about dogs. But see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule#Loose_rhetorical_sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule... The original sense is "No parking on sundays" proves that parking is allowed on other days. The colloquial sense is that if something is a surprising, it shows that its opposite was a useful rule of thumb, or at least one you'd established in your head. (E.g. if you are surprised by a dog that doesn't bark, this surprise is meaningful and says something about what you think about dogs and barking.) If palantir is shocking as a SV company, this says something interesting about what you think about SV companies.