Comment by bcrosby95
1 month ago
Yeah, we need to go back to names like International Business Machines, fuck this immature "Google" or "Yahoo!" nonsense. Hell, Palantir is named after something in a book for children!
Give me something reasonable like Global Information and Retrieval Systems Inc or Worldwide Computational Services Holdings.
Yes!
Back in the early 2000's I set up a company for contract work. The name, logo and typography was designed to look like a 1960s engineering company. All paper was slightly off white, all fonts were monospaced courier new and logo was a real 2-part colour stamp I had made up. Was so happy.
Managed to bankrupt it though.
Security First Trust and Federal Reserve
Torture Nexus International Holdings Limited
Palantir is from Lord of the Rings which I would argue is unlike The Hobbit not a book for children.
Maybe not exclusively, but I read it in grade school and was not alone.
Maybe Enron eh?
Like CutCo. Or EdgeCom. Or InterSlice.
Palantir is in Lord of the Rings. Which is not a book for children. Maybe you were thinking of the hobbit?
This seems overly pedantic and ripe for a sarcastic retort, which I am struggling mightily to suppress.
This is hacker news, what were you expecting? O:-)
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It's fantasy and fantasy is clearly for children
Okay Peter, please go back in your coffin.
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Lest us not pretend that the thropic in Anthropic isn't meant to elicit the feeling that they are somehow charitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle