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1. maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 14:28:24 EST maiyannah

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   No one but the usual shitheads are going to point out that the 300 million dollar loss Intel had this year is a strangely similar number to them claiming they hired 300 million dollars worth of "diverse" employees? I mean, frankly I believe they actually doled out that much for diversity hires as much as I believe in bigfoot, but surely their PR guys told them to sh…
   • maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 14:45:03 EST maiyannah

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     @purplehippo The charity money wouldn't be a loss actually, it's a tax write off. In all likelihood this is more related to a combination of the costs of them developing the DRM they place on CPUs as well as them having definitely done quite the scad of diversity hires. The hires themselves aren't what cost money, it's the lost efficiency - wasted time on bad code …