Anyone who has read The Lord of The Rings has exactly zero reasons to trust Palantir.

emptybits 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed. The corporation name is literally (in literature!) an example of all-seeing surveillance tools causing harm when (not if) they fall into evil hands.

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DoktorDelta 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Crazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well

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inigyou 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'd call my company Sauron's Eye (we'll figure out what the company does later), but sadly that's trademarked to the LOTR franchise.

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nickff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why? Naming a weapons company after Aragorn's sword makes sense. "The Daily Beast" on the other hand is a rather cynical name...

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scns 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Creative people seem to be rather pacifistic. Warmongers seem less so, they have to "borrow" from the creative ones.

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goldenarm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.

	▲	Barrin92 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.

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alterom 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Crazy? It's backed by Thiel as well IIRC.

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za3faran 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's enough to hear what their genocidal maniac of a CEO says.

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z3c0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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