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Palantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt (thestreet.com) 122

Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in order to accept the fellowship.)

And now Palantir "is taking a similar approach as it maneuvers to attract new talent," reports financial news site The Street: The company has launched what it refers to as the "Meritocracy Fellowship," a four-month internship program for recent high school graduates who have not enrolled in college. The position pays roughly $5,400 per month, more than plenty of post-college internship programs. Palantir's job posting suggests that the company is especially interested in candidates with experience in programming and statistical analysis.
Palantir's job listing specifically says they launched their four-month fellowship "in response to the shortcomings of university admissions," promising it would be based "solely on merit and academic excellence" (requiring an SAT score over 1459 or an ACT score above 32.) "Opaque admissions standards at many American universities have displaced meritocracy and excellence..." As a result, qualified students are being denied an education based on subjective and shallow criteria. Absent meritocracy, campuses have become breeding grounds for extremism and chaos... Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination. Get the Palantir Degree...

Upon successful completion of the Meritocracy Fellowship, fellows that have excelled during their time at Palantir will be given the opportunity to interview for full-time employment at Palantir.

Comment Tariffs are not taxes on consumers (Score 0) 313

Yes it may seem that consumers need to pay higher prices on products they want that are now experiencing tariffs BUT the tariff is NOT a tax on the consumer. There are choices and the choice to buy a domestic product is what this is also attempting to achieve. If liberals want to spend so much money on saving trees, how about you all look at the costs involved with our domestic labor force and look at why it was cheaper to buy these products from elsewhere. Whine all you want but Trump is actually trying to fix some of the problems we created by wanting cheap products and being unable to afford them from domestic suppliers. Sure it hurts a little because no one is used to it, but it will feel better eventually.

Comment Nothing new (Score 0) 17

The whole system is somewhat of a scam and always has been. Sure there are many honest and excellent research papers with honest and worthy approvals and verifications but the system has also had a fair share of prideful and money making junk.

Comment Cleary wanted, NOT for $3500 (Score 0) 133

This or a similar device is clearly wanted, and is CLEARLY not worth 3500 to enough people. Apple is pretty smart and they likely knew this all along deep down inside, but hedged toward the thinking of if Apple builds this cool new gadget, people will talk and will really want it! Apple may have had a much better outcome if the device started near to $2200.

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