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Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed

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164 points Anon84 | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 04:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gadders ◴[08 Dec 25 10:51 UTC] No.46190845[source]▶
Can someone actually explain what the magic sauce is in what Palantir does? I understand it pulls data together?
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mclightning ◴[08 Dec 25 11:43 UTC] No.46191172[source]▶
Magic sauce is absolute lack of moral values.
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1. gadders ◴[08 Dec 25 12:03 UTC] No.46191282[source]▶
But I mean in terms of technical capability? How is it different than chucking everything in Postgres or a Big Data lake or something?
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2. salawat ◴[08 Dec 25 14:58 UTC] No.46192933[source]▶
It isn't. It's just that they're doing it where others aren't. They're a child of Total Information Awareness that has never realized or just doesn't care about the societal poison pill inherent to it.