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by Veen 1992 days ago
What good does Palantir do? I'd be quite interested to hear about it.
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They have a surprising number of humanitarian projects. For example, they're partnering with the World Food Programme to optimize food distribution.
That might be a corporate form of moral self licensing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

Don't know much about them, but they do appear to support/do the development of pyls (python language server)
Do they build Autobahns too
Certainly more good than news media taking an occasional drive-by shit on them will admit. It behooves people who still read the news to develop a healthy skepticism about motivated negative coverage.