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www.mckinsey.com 6y ago

The value of share buybacks (2005)

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www.forbes.com 6y ago

The End of Agile

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www.seattletimes.com 7y ago

Williams-Sonoma accuses Amazon of copying West Elm furniture

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taskandpurpose.com 7y ago

Military Leaders Are Starting to Freak Out Over Russia’s Info Warfare Dominance

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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np.reddit.com 8y ago

“App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire using verified profiles

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www.latimes.com 8y ago

Equifax says SS numbers, birth dates of 143M may have been exposed

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www.economist.com 8y ago

The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore

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www.cnbc.com 8y ago

Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses, outraged sellers say

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thehill.com 9y ago

Trump staffers using app that deletes their messages

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foreignpolicy.com 10y ago

What Bill Gates Got Wrong About Why Nations Fail

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www.latimes.com 10y ago

A phony STEM shortage and the scandal of engineering visas

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www.economist.com 10y ago

Statistical analysis of basketball:Black Mamba the tortoise

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www.latimes.com 10y ago

Facing regulatory roadblocks, Uber ramps up its lobbying in California

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www.economist.com 11y ago

A book on the persistence of elites is an unexpected guide to getting a good job

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go.bloomberg.com 14y ago

Old Rivalries Die Hard: Oracle’s Ellison Takes Fresh Shot at SAP

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seattletimes.nwsource.com 15y ago

Feds to prevent Barefoot Bandit from profiting on "Intellectual Property"

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The core issue is dimensional data modeling was introduced to address limitations on hardware (disk drives) and limited capacity.

With the advent of unlimited storage and separation of computer and storage, dimensional data modeling would only be possible if there was strong data governance in a system like SAP or a COE.

The problem with Palantir is they target gov. agencies.

Most of the time companies who have systems like Palantir, I’m thinking the SAP, Oracle, blah Blah, have to report earnings to the street through a 10k or have to comply with regulations like Sarbanes Oxley.

They will also have in-house IT staff to monitor the logs etc.

The programs installing the Foundry system have an incentive to hide the data from prying eyes and therefore it never leaves the Palantir ecosystem. The government doesn’t hire independent consultants, auditors etc to confirm if it’s being used or not.

They simply have to demonstrate trustworthiness to a security officer and hope an IG doesn’t have an external equivalent of a Forward deployed engineer.

So while the technology is mediocre, it’s the nebulousness or the lack of audit-ability and the are the people writing checks the same people signing them.

So I sympathize with Karp talking about technology being fine it’s the apparatus surrounding it that says “just trust us” that gives pause, especially in today’s culture of conflict.

If I told you that 90% of all transactions get routed through a foreign companies software, you might pause but it’s been like that for years (SAP). The difference is there are controls in place.

I was joking with a friend that one of their competitive advantages is that it is a mediocre data platform but their critics get gang stalked.

Article is trying to discern a cause and effect.

The fact is people are involved and success and failure can be determined by any number of reasons beyond the control of the obstinate.

You can control the effort but not the outcome. Judgement will come regardless.

Nobody is asking them to "eat the costs"

“Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we’re going to pay them,” the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing “because we worry he’ll change his mind.”