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		shadowgovt on Dec 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Downsides to working at a tech giant Everyone's opinions on tradeoffs vary. Were it me, I wouldn't be proud if I'd made the call to join the company that is directly supporting The US's broken ICE system (https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/technology/2019/05/do...), even if I were $200M richer. It seems Garry dodged a bullet on this one.

plorkyeran on Dec 23, 2019 [–]

He says he ended up working for Palantir anyway, so he dodged the bullet then chased it down to dive back in front of it again.

teachrdan on Dec 24, 2019 | [–]

In the case of this metaphor, he ran back to Palantir for his opportunity to shoot the gun, for a tiny share of the profits.

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