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  • [–] 78 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I watched the lord of the ring movies this weekend for the first time. Extended versions with my friends.

    Wtf is wrong with people who name their company, possibly their life's work, after the evil eye of the big bad evil guy?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    Technically, the Palantiri weren't the evil eye of the Sauron. Sauron and Saruman did use them (and that's why you see Sauron's eye in one of them), but the stones themselves were basically just communication and surveillance devices. They were, themselves, fairly neutral and not made by anyone especially evil (probably Feanor - flawed but not evil). But they were used for evil purposes during the time in the LOTR trilogy.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    No they didn't.

    Later, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the Federal Aviation Administration had brought on Palantir, Thales SA, and Air Space Intelligence to compete for the SMART contract. Palantir then released a statement to investors confirming the company was contracted by the FAA to “provide a data analytics tool that will help advance the agency’s modernization objectives for aviation safety.”

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Where do you get the impression they've won the contract? They have another sole source contract with the FAA, but for SMART are still one of three in the running unless there is some source out there I'm missing.

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