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People quoting Palantir's CYA response are missing the fact that Palantir's business model is to embed engineers at customer sites to deploy, configure, and ope

• DamnYuppie 5y ago
  Having worked on too many large implementations and having some exposure to working with large government entities I immediately created a comical and painful scenario in my head that went like this: There were many elaborate meetings with key stakeholders that were to outline the need for security and to put forth a plan to identify and implement the requirements that meets all of their needs. Then due to those meetings another 50 meetings with government employees where held to debate what the settings should be. These meetings of course could not be held with the same group of people at the same location so much effort was put in to coordinating travel and availability of all the resources. As happens when you get that many people pulled into a project that they mostly don't give a sh*t about nothing gets done. Eventually everyone involved became frazzled when no consensus could be reached, so the grumpiest/most connected of those employees bullied everyone else into what was "their way" and so it was then done.
  • sjg007 5y ago
    I think you just described a school board meeting.