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Because govtech is notoriously difficult to break in to.
How did Palantir break in? What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same?
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Palantir's software stack is not really that complex, and their FDE workforce is famously... undereducated. Canada should be able to pull it off, there's much to improve on.
You overestimate the willingness of Canadian software engineer employers to pay anything beyond peanuts. Any competent developer already immediately flees to the US to triple their take-home pay at first chance and Canadian employers are fully aware of this.
The only way is Canada joining the EU in making their own tech, but even then, this will take at least a decade to materialize, if any, don’t forget all infrastructure hardware is still US, hp/dell/nvidia/etc plus decades of software and OSes, so yeah.
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China is the most sensible current superpower. They are barely communist at all since Deng and have a better recent track record in terms of maintaining global trade. And at least in recent years they are probably the least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities. Oh and Premier Xi lives under your bed.
> least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.
Havent forgotten. Its not that China got better, its that its competitors got worse.
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China is the most sensible current superpower. They are barely communist at all since Deng and have a better recent track record in terms of maintaining global trade. And at least in recent years they are probably the least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities. Oh and Premier Xi lives under your bed.
> least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.
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Because it’s a company with no ethics beyond “might makes right,” owned by a person of dubious sanity who travels around the world to warn anyone who’ll listen about how the Antichrist is bad for their business. Why would anyone in their right minds do business with a company like that?
To be fair the Antichrist, being a prophesied entity from several millennia ago, is probably not super up to date on twenty-first-century business best practices. They probably still use waterfall.
I mean no public strategy should include secret bills, Palantir or no Palantir. If you're idealogically opposed to Palantir, how will a home-grown Palantir help? It would likely do the same things Palantir does but with a Canadian Alex Karp
There likely isn't a Canadian Alex Karp. Karp is a unique byproduct of American culture. The specific brand of arrogance, hunger for war, and callous disregard for human life, all in service of a right wing ideological project, is simply not as present in Canada because Canada is a middle power with more liberal values who prefer diplomacy over war.
Canada and Europe call for banning American companies in their the name of sovereignty: upvoted and praised as necessary America tries that for valid reasons (unfair subsidies, human or labor rights violations, BYD): get called fascist or stupid
Canada and Europe call for banning American companies in their the name of America Threatening to go apeshit and do stupid stuff: upvoted and praised as necessary. America tries that for stupid xenophobic reasons, gets called stupid or xenophobic.
This shouldn’t be surprising.
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To be fair the Antichrist, being a prophesied entity from several millennia ago, is probably not super up to date on twenty-first-century business best practices. They probably still use waterfall.
There is a fantastic book to be written about the Antichrist finally rising to lay waste to the world, only to be astounded by air travel, the internet, etc. A demonic horde of a thousand flaming knights riding through Rome is largely written off as a new burning man thing, etc.