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ll931110··on F1 Cancels Russian Grand Prix Following Invasion of Ukraine
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...

ll931110··on “WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”
So, ultimately, if you make the wrong trading decisions, it's your fault. WSB or not it's irrelevant.
ll931110··on Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
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).
ll931110··on Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
As long as Robinhood offers excellent UX, people will return. Look how many claims over Facebook's digital privacy, including companies boycotting Facebook, and yet people still use it now. Good UX is hard to beat.
ll931110··on A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
Even Women's Chess Champion forgot it once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFF5ibgB6eA
ll931110··on Pandemic Villains: Robinhood
So how exactly do you write laws differentiating them?
ll931110··on Pandemic Villains: Robinhood
So same as ETrade, Schwab, TDAmeritrade, Vanguard, Fidelity, etc.?
ll931110··on How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People
You can win in a single year or two. But winning year over year for 10 years? That's not possible, unless you are .. wait for it .. being part of them?
ll931110··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
Sure, but current Formula E cars are around F3 speed, which is two steps below F1 cars. Formula E even had to avoid racing on the full Monaco layout to avoid headlines comparing (and ridiculing them) for being slow.
ll931110··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
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.
ll931110··on Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
Still a very long way from that. What tools should non-programmers use instead?
ll931110··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
The limit was on TFLOPs, so you don't get to compute more just by using better hardware.
ll931110··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
That is precisely the reason budget cap will come into effect from 2021.
ll931110··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
Even cheats in F1 are brilliant by engineering standard. Look at how Ferrari (allegedly) circumvent the fuel flow limit by aliasing techniques.

https://motorsport.tech/formula-1/fuel-flow-gate-did-ferrari...

ll931110··on Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
The problem is, people without children are told (or required) to pick up the workload left behind when the coworkers having children taking (multiple) weeks off. For once or twice that might be okay, but if became a chronic problem, no wonder they are not happy.
ll931110··on Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
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?
ll931110··on Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban
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.

ll931110··on Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
Right, but Ross Brawn was hardly alone. He worked well with Jean Todt whom did the negotiation and business handling.

For all the credits to Binotto, he's not a good negotiator.

ll931110··on Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
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.
ll931110··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
That would be deal breakers with whistleblowers (Edward Snowden).
ll931110··on MasterClass is seizing its moment
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)

ll931110··on Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
Google already pays Apple $9 billion to have Google as default search engine on iPhone.
ll931110··on Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Most? In Vietnam (where my parents live) with $5 a month you can do everything (Internet, call and text, or even watching Youtube for short period of time).
ll931110··on Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future
The weather in East Coast turned me away. (background: I lived in East Coast for 4.5 years and went through several terrible winters)
ll931110··on Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings
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.

ll931110··on How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time
Sorry I was unclear. I am talking about dynamics of people whom became romantic couples after a long period of friendship, not relationship advice in general.
ll931110··on How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time
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.
ll931110··on Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?
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.
ll931110··on Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
There seems to be a gap to fill for companies/organizations building software for government. Wondering which reputable companies are filling this gap?
ll931110··on A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies
Nice job! It would be nice to filter options (by location or services).
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