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Either way, I'd kill myself before I worked at Palanatir. And I've put myself in poverty before by quitting a multi-national pharma that bought my company out

Either way, I'd kill myself before I worked at Palanatir. And I've put myself in poverty before by quitting a multi-national pharma that bought my company out and I lived on my 10k savings over 15months while I found a new job. Palanatir is not harming the world because of 4-5 shitty executives. They are harming the world because of 100's of shitty employees that only want money. Fuck all of them.

linkregister 9y ago
> They are harming the world because of 100's of shitty employees that only want money. Can you explain this more? I don't work at Palantir, but I do insist I get paid for working every two weeks. How are they harming the world? I mean, aside from converting oxygen to carbon dioxide.
- insulanus 9y ago
  They are saying "don't work for them" / boycott them. They are arguing that if they had no employees, they would cease to be.
  - linkregister 9y ago
    I still don't get why Palantir is making the world worse, besides being apparently a bad product.
    - comstock 9y ago
      There are finite human/physical resources. The money/time/physical resource spent on supporting Palantir and its employees could have been deployed on more benefital problems. Is I would guess the argument.
avs733 9y ago
I wrote this one of the last times Palantir was discussed and I think it remains true. The company is about ego and bullshit...and they have done a really good job of selling the emperors new clothes. >I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir. >I cannot comment about the technology but I sure as hell can at a people level. I was a speaker at a conference where one of the Palantir cofounders gave a keynote. This was a conference organized by college students for their peers. As with all such situations these kids worked incredibly hard and his talk was incredibly disrespectful to that. >If I hadn't been so disgusted I would have thought to record it. Rather than talk about anything relevant to his audience, or frankly anything informative, he told 'stories'. We have all seen that type of talk, but I have never seem one which so blatantly braggadocious about his interactions with this and other country's intelligence branches. I found it somewhat ironic, for someone who works for Peter Theil, that the level to which the talk, and his representation of the 'good' the company does was so absolutely and unapologetically statist and authoritarian. He talked about who's jet he rode on, who he knew, and other things that seemed simply organized to ensure we knew just how important he was. Several of the stories were overtly misogynistic, and none of them had any useful knowledge about Palintir or working for them. I was sitting with another speaker and we were literally shaking our heads. I felt bad for the organizers and felt the shame he[the speaker] seemed incapable of.
- drewrv 9y ago
  > Several of the stories were overtly misogynistic, and none of them had any useful knowledge about Palintir or working for them. Sounds like you got a ton of useful knowledge about Palinitir and working for them!

linkregister 9y ago

> They are harming the world because of 100's of shitty employees that only want money. Can you explain this more? I don't work at Palantir, but I do insist I get paid for working every two weeks. How are they harming the world? I mean, aside from converting oxygen to carbon dioxide.

insulanus 9y ago
They are saying "don't work for them" / boycott them. They are arguing that if they had no employees, they would cease to be.
- linkregister 9y ago
  I still don't get why Palantir is making the world worse, besides being apparently a bad product.
  - comstock 9y ago
    There are finite human/physical resources. The money/time/physical resource spent on supporting Palantir and its employees could have been deployed on more benefital problems. Is I would guess the argument.

avs733 9y ago

I wrote this one of the last times Palantir was discussed and I think it remains true. The company is about ego and bullshit...and they have done a really good job of selling the emperors new clothes. >I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir. >I cannot comment about the technology but I sure as hell can at a people level. I was a speaker at a conference where one of the Palantir cofounders gave a keynote. This was a conference organized by college students for their peers. As with all such situations these kids worked incredibly hard and his talk was incredibly disrespectful to that. >If I hadn't been so disgusted I would have thought to record it. Rather than talk about anything relevant to his audience, or frankly anything informative, he told 'stories'. We have all seen that type of talk, but I have never seem one which so blatantly braggadocious about his interactions with this and other country's intelligence branches. I found it somewhat ironic, for someone who works for Peter Theil, that the level to which the talk, and his representation of the 'good' the company does was so absolutely and unapologetically statist and authoritarian. He talked about who's jet he rode on, who he knew, and other things that seemed simply organized to ensure we knew just how important he was. Several of the stories were overtly misogynistic, and none of them had any useful knowledge about Palintir or working for them. I was sitting with another speaker and we were literally shaking our heads. I felt bad for the organizers and felt the shame he[the speaker] seemed incapable of.

drewrv 9y ago
> Several of the stories were overtly misogynistic, and none of them had any useful knowledge about Palintir or working for them. Sounds like you got a ton of useful knowledge about Palinitir and working for them!