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I wasn't saying anything about that, I was just pointing out that yes, IBM produces a ton of patents, but they're mostly trivial junk that regular employees generate en masse in order to earn accomplishments and make up for the insultingly low bonuses.

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> they're mostly trivial junk that regular employees generate en masse in order to earn accomplishments and make up for the insultingly low bonuses

We did that at Meta and Amazon too (for polycarbonate puzzle pieces, with no monetary award at all!). Every now and then something meaningful came out of it

I still have my “Get fucked, employee! Love, Jeff” puzzle pieces.

What are these? I'm extremely curious.

It’s a puzzle piece shape cut out of polycarbonate with some meaningless “great work!” platitude printed on it:

https://postimg.cc/v1v5VP2f

Thank you for satiating my curiosity.

I can see why GGP described it that way.

Not even Lucite!

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