Joe Lonsdale, the cofounder of Palantir and founding partner of Austin-based venture capital firm 8VC, said Thursday he was "uncomfortable" with the government's $8.9 billion investment in Intel. "It's very weird, of course, for the government to be taking a stake in something," Lonsdale said on CNBC's Squawk Box. "It's also a little bit weird for the government to be giving$9 billion to a company, too.""It's cronyism in some form," he added. Cronyism, the milder cousin of nepotism, is the practice of giv ...