If the article is to be believed, though, the damage is already done. Companies have already laid off large portions of their R&D staff, and have canceled lots of forward-looking technical work. Re-hiring those people and restarting those projects can take years, and that's if companies feel confident enough that the exemption will stick around, and not get removed again in a few years.

It's always young companies that hire everyone, so it still helps.

Still, I'll take it

"I'll give you a candy bar if you let me stab you multiple times"