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The statement from Formula 1 says: [1]

"On Thursday evening Formula 1, the FIA, and the teams discussed the position of our sport, and the conclusion is, including the view of all relevant stakeholders, that it is impossible to hold the Russian Grand Prix in the current circumstances."

So if the circumstances change, the race could be reinstated. This is not an official cancellation.

[1] https://corp.formula1.com/formula-1-statement-on-the-russian...

The fee can still be very significant, especially once you engage into complex options strategy (e.g. call spread / put spread / iron condor). That tends to trade in significantly larger quantity (e.g. you can have a 50x call spread), in which the fee is now $100 ($50 for buying a call and $50 for selling another call).

That is simply not true. Mercedes had a huge head start in 2014 by starting the V6-hybrid engine development from 2012, while their competitors (Red Bull and Ferrari) were busy fighting for the championship with V8 engine in 2012 and 2013.

At the end of the day, you need enough people to care. But plenty are happy with finishing the work, or absolving all the messiness of real world and focus on the engineering work, which is simply more pleasant (and fits to their liking). Work is hard enough, why adding extra stress unless the company is doing something obviously illegal?

That highlights a fundamental difference between US vs other countries university education system. In most countries university is vocational training e.g. you learn very deeply what's needed for a relatively specialized job with few chance to retrain once enter the workplace. The US focuses on broad undergrad education system, thus students can/should be able to adapt in their long career, even retraining and switching career if necessary.

But let's say, for the sake of arguments, that US adopts the requirement of having highschoolers applying straight away to medical school. Then suddenly you need a very different selection criteria. High school grades are off. SAT is jokingly too easy, so you need a much more difficult national exam (and enforce that nationwide). Students either grind in high schools for high grade or they'd rather drop that early to go for "normal" universities. And finally, you need better schools across the board to provide students with such opportunity, because if left unchecked, you'll have 10-20 percent of students from California, and only a few spots from Tennessee, thus not ensuring rural area having enough doctors.

Nope, not that easy. Look at Scuderia Ferrari F1 team. In 2014 - 2018 the team principal was a business guy (Maurizio Arrivabene), whom was pushed out to make room for a technical guy (Mattia Binotto), whom led the technical work to bring Ferrari challenging the F1 title. And look at what happens now: they went backward from the 2nd best team to shared 5th-6th, burning a budget of $400M for a car that was a lot slower than their own version last year.

Actually I find it the opposite: the material for this particular class is too simple and helps nothing if you already have some good chess knowledge and want to bring to expert/master level.

(Granted there are plenty of other resources for such, including a number of Kasparov books)

There are a lot of assumptions in this statement.

1. You assume those people are proficient in English.

2. You assume those people can operate a smartphone or a computer, let alone go search for news.

3. You assume they will immediately discard scammy stories as fake. True story: yesterday, a relative of mine sent me a story about keeping her Facebook's account free by sending a certain SMS to 10 other people in her contact book. It took me 5 minutes to explain to her this was obviously a scam, and yet she wasn't totally convinced, because by her words "a lot of her friends sent her the same SMS".

4. You assume people have financial knowledge about investment or basic understanding of risk and return. Remember, in Vietnam there's no concept of 401k or IRA, and most people never invest before.

5. You assume people have college degree. In fact, many victims didn't finish high school or even middle school. Despite all the news, a large population of Vietnam still lacks college education.

This could work, but with caveat. The tricky part is transition from close friends to partners, because while being close friends is the requisite for their love to blossom, there are a lot of unspoken assumptions that each party asks from the other that only romantic partners do. Also, when they know each other for years, they make assumptions about the other and have certain understanding of each other, hence departures from these assumptions could lead to devastating effect.

Right now I'm about to start my first job after college, and have been struggling for a few months before (by some unrelated reasons). Now I find I don't need trying to be successful for its own sake, I treat it as a journey to find my own value. Instead of fixating on a single, true way to succeed (which often depends on a lot of factors outside your control), I keep multiple scenarios with "true" and "flexible" ending. While I will work for the true ending, ending up at a flexible ending suffices.