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>>todsac+(OP)
> After earning a degree in computer engineering from Stanford, Garry was an engineer at Palantir and then created one of the earliest and best-designed blogging platforms, Posterous.

This is a reminder that Palantir is the firm that sells data mining software to US police and military organizations that then use it to violate human rights.

It should be a black mark on anyone’s record.

>>sneak+Ju
> It should be a black mark on anyone’s record.

Exactly. I have always maintained that a small but significant way to put pressure on 'evil' companies, like Palantir, is to blacklist any employees who have them on their resume, making it difficult for them to attract talent. Unfortunately, I have found that very people share that view, and I am hard-pressed to figure out why.

>>deepsp+VC
I believe that it is because most people are not actually actively anti-war or pro-human-rights. The median person can be made to endorse and support invasion and torture if they are fed the right media.

Most people are apathetic, and having the military-industrial complex in your work history simply doesn’t register to many.

It’s not that they endorse evil; it’s just that they don’t care.