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by QuadmasterXLII 81 days ago
Palantir is under immense economic pressure to deliver this integration at high quality on time. This incentive structure, combined the publicly traded nature of the company, risks corrupting its core founding goals of embodying the evil of Sauron on earth and hurting as many people as it can, as badly as possible. However, Thiel is an extremely competent, mission focussed leader and I agree with the doctors: he will get this program back on track mission-wise without pissing off shareholders too much.

(</s>? Maybe? hard to say tbh)

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The reality is that no program so far has really been successful within the NHS. Money is burnt at an alarming rate and the companies taking on these contracts are incompetent at best.

If staff don't want to work with it then they're not fulfilling their roles.

What if any of us took a job and then refused to work with Microsoft or [Insert company] due to personal reasons? We'd be jobless.

People arent robots, they are allowed their own thoughts and free will. Your comment implies any behavior against the interests of a corporation is somehow a sin. This is such a gross take.
They are allowed to have thoughts and free will, and a company is allowed to fire you for not doing your job. It's not a sin, it's just business.
I imagine this is the argument police officers used when they refused to use body cameras.
> People arent robots, they are allowed their own thoughts and free will.

Modern HR culture is working hard to address this terrible failing. </s>

> The reality is that no program so far has really been successful within the NHS.

Could you be a bit more specific? No IT initiative at all? No attempt to create a national data spine?

And yet - when I go my GP they enter and lookup data on the computer there which is linked to national system.