geoffbrown

Worked for me. Thank you! I'll post some feedback, after I read it of course. :)

I'm reading the words you are saying, but I'm hearing fuck off. To your point, it would be great if the driver's had the ability to charge according to their cost basis. But they don't. A lot of should be's in your world. All I'm saying is that the money Uber makes appears to be closely linked with free riderism. If a poacher and a person willing to purchased poached game from publicly maintained land, voluntarily transact, I'm not sure either is a paragon of capitalistic virtue you seem to be implying.

" Therefore, this risk is transferred to either drivers (who are on average mot equipped to handle this risk) or insurance companies (who pass the costs on to their entire insurance pool) and not borne directly by Uber nor its customer base. "

This is really revolting to me. And outlines what my intuition feels is wrong with most SV 'disruption'. Its just so immature. While I don't agree with your later sentiments, the risk shifting is dead on.

You wont change them or their behavior. So, learn to protect yourself from their failure as much as possible. Then as soon as you can, find a work environment that is better suited to your temperament and personality. Also it can help to take note of the justice of karma acting on their lives.

ADM, you are going to have to pry the coconut oil out of my cold, dead, greasy hands!

YESSSSSS!!!!

"Each one is different I guess"

This is the core of the issue. But its still frustrating to see other children doing the things your child refuses to do or has a meltdown about. Especially simple things that you thought you could take for granted like pushing a baby in a stroller or napping.

I would say the main difference between my boys at each perspective age was the speed with which they could process reasoned input. The chill guy by age 2-2.5 or so would listen and generally abide by instructions almost immediately to the best of his age ability, the intense one would take days or weeks at the same age to get to the same level of practice and disagree and try to argue in favor of his ideas or actions. It was very frustrating at first (I would have to take a walk to cool down) but then I would catch him a few days later behaving in the directed way. I didn't say anything about it, but I was just wtf?? After all that, now you're fine? Slowly I saw the pattern emerge that he WAS processing the information, but that the appropriate behavior came later. Sometimes weeks. That's when I stopped worrying about it so much. He 'gets' it, he just needs time to process it in his own way. I'm not sure I handled it the best, but I would calmly explain the desired behavior or information and leave it at that. I acknowledged that he disagrees and move on. Honestly, I worry more about my integrity as an authority figure than his displeasure or the rightness or wrongness of the issue being discussed. (That's what I meant by the long game) I do a lot of image processing in my side project and his behavior reminds me of image thresholding. He needs to see or be exposed to an ideas a certain number of times before it takes. I have no authority to offer any real advice, other than I understand your frustration.

If I could go back and have one piece of information its about dialing in my expectations. I find that there are (at least) two types of babies/young children. I call them chill babies and intense babies. If you get a chill baby then you can expect a subjectively normal pace of achieving milestones and overall less trouble. I'm not saying its easy with a chill baby, but its overall your stress levels will be lower. If you get an intense baby, you really need to take a step back and play the long game. They will take longer to get to the milestones, they will try your patience more, they will be more frustrating to respond to your inputs. Its like there is something interfering with their response system. While this can feel like you are doing things wrong at first, it can be confirmed when people give you advice about sleeping, eating, or gas and its clear they've never experienced what you are going through. Also, if you have one of each like I do, you can make the mistake of thinking that one is normal and that there is something wrong with the intense baby. Don't worry about the intense baby's lack of milestones or responses the odds say they will come out all right. (I was pretty sure my 1st born had ADD/Autism from week 3. ;)) The good news is that either way you get a little break from the frustration around 3 and they pretty much equalize around 7 or 8. Just be ready for either and figure out a way to spend lots of time with them.

Im working on a image parser that reads dimensional markup symbols to convert pictures of hand drawn sketches to constraint resolved corrected cad files with automated g-code output, automated pattern nesting, and eventually 2D to 3D conversion. No public code yet. :/

Agree on both counts. This question seems to have an appropriate level of difficulty for the student rank and written in a fairly intelligible manner. Can't speak to the rest of the test, but I don't find this question off sides at all. And yes it is very likely too late.