It hasn't been a country with a remote chance of producing another Arm for well over a decade, and Arm, successful though it is, is not a huge financial success. Maybe that's what using Prince Andrew as a trade representative achieved.
Part innovator's dilemma, part lack of ambition, part lack of government support, part the usual UK/Euro VC situ. All I'll say is I met Karp once, face to face, in Palantir's very early days. The UK firm didn't have a Karp.
I wish I am wrong. Unfortunately agrees with you on everything.
Part innovator's dilemma almost certainly happens to all companies. It is the rest of the sentence that are the problems. Ambition, Government, UK/Euro VC situ, and generally culture.
Those who are Ambition moved to the US. Government, both ruling party and cvivl servant aren't interested to making anything better and I have seen this first hand. UK and Euro VC.
I personally believe Palantir provides no real benefit except to enrich the fascist rich in the US.
Lol
I wonder why so many governments sign with a company that, even if the contract says they will not leak information to the US government, is required to yield any information to it if the US requests it, without even being able to notify their client—regardless of the location of the servers themselves.
[0]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4943...
Palantir is also likely one of the major lobbyists in pushing for Chat Control to the European Commision.
[0] (warning pdf) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-00095...
"Jumps into bed" gives a pretty good idea of what the author wants you to think. But I'm going to give the people signing the deal the benefit of the doubt that they might know a bit more.
Now where did I put that Mutant Chronicles rulebook...
I have a friend that was afraid a nuclear bomb would eventually drop. I wasn't worried a bit about that though. So perhaps perception or state of mind made a difference.
Robert Maxwell allegedly sold a backdoored version of the PROMIS software to many governments, including the US government.
Christine Maxwell, founder of the Magellan search engine, co-founded the Chiliad data analysis software that was used in the FBI post 9/11.
Her co-founder was Alan Wade, who then went to the CIA in the role of CIO when In-Q-Tel founded Palantir.
Epstein invested in Thiel's Valar fund after 2008.
It's basically we give you money now so you end up paying us back twice and don't develop anything locally either. And we get your data in the mean time.
That said, the UK is clearly desperate, as recent discussions on here attest to.
so it's unsurprising that the UK, which wants to befriend Pres Trump, would also like to befriend the VP (who owes his entire career to Thiel).
This should scare you immensely more...
#rewrite_it_in_ada
Krasnol•1h ago
We're delivering tools of surveillance to a world where freedom loving countries turn into oppressive regimes.
Really ugly times ahead of us...
exe34•35m ago
ludicrousdispla•32m ago