$10k subsidy went away, of course vehicle sales went down! Next year Ford is releasing a $30k electric pickup truck, the Ranchero, then it will go back up!

If batteries and EV components were to stay the same, then I could totally see American car manufacturers sticking it out with ICE cars, despite EVs having advantages in some ways. But we all know the technology is getting cheaper and better, and not having EV plans would be tantamount to giving up on being anything more than a niche company.

Match fixing is a thing but in the major sports, the TV revenue is larger than betting revenue by several orders of magnitude.

If it's regular sports betting, then people aren't winning because of insider information.

Actually 76.5% isn't very good. I expected it to be higher.

Americans on average want increased benefits and lowered taxes.

That may seem like a contradiction, and it is; but anyone who increases taxes or lowers benefits gets voted out of office. Even Trump gave up getting rid of Obamacare.

Note they didn't ask people to stop submitted AI code. They asked people to stop submitting AI slop.

Presumably if the code produced is high quality, they will be willing to accept it.

It's a smart strategy IF you don't mind of your most competent employees leave first. At Facebook with its current strategy they might be ok with that.

Most of their good employees left a while ago anyway.

All that and you still can't help bragging about how many people you've managed.

This is not news that matters. Normally I don't complain, but...

That's why you're not climbing the corporate ladder. Get more people under you ASAP. Learn to fight off your rivals. Or stay down.

Wrong. Managers are always scheming to get as many people below them as possible. Claiming savings is an effective short-term strategy that only works in specific circumstances, and it only works as a strategy when it results in more people below you on the org tree.

So true. Same with programming languages, too. Good engineers solve problems in the constraints they are given.

Why do you think their intent is to move faster?

If managers can slow you down, then they need to hire more people below them. That is a promotion for the manager.

Managers are actively trying to slow you down.

They don't sell to upper level management, they sell to second tier management.

If you're second level, you need to make "positive changes" in the company to climb the ladder, but you aren't smart enough to think of those changes yourself. Gartner sells the plan to second level managers, who sell it to top level in hopes of getting promoted.

Gartner, Forrester, etc are in the "help second tier managers get promoted" business.