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At Big Health our digital therapeutics — Sleepio for insomnia, Daylight for anxiety, and Spark Direct for depression — provide treatment anytime, anywhere. In pursuit of our mission, we’ve pioneered the first at-scale digital therapeutic business model, in partnership with some of the most prominent global healthcare organizations, including CVS Health and the UK’s NHS.
We use a variety of technologies, but mostly we're a react-native frontend that uses django and postgre running on AWS shop.
We also have some Frontend positions open as well that are not on lever. You can reach out to me directly for those at timothy dot hou at bighealth.com with HN in the subject.
> There are Chinese generals who claim the war will be over in a few days. That's what Putin thought when invading Russia and trying to take Kyiv.
Geographically Taiwan is easier to isolate. It is also a much smaller and denser country. Ukraine has a direct border with a NATO country that has been very useful as a safe staging area. Taiwan would be completely reliant on sea and air for resupply.
As a Taiwanese American, I do believe my cousins would put up a valiant fight. However it is hard to imagine it lasting very long without foreign boots on the ground. A conflict of any length in Taiwan would result in a huge loss of life.
Taiwan is also an island separated by hundreds of miles of ocean from the mainland. Russia shared thousands of miles of land border with Ukraine, much of it flat steppe. China's ability to make meaningful changes in Taiwan would be difficult with it's own boots on the ground, and it would be far harder to to that in Taiwan than Russia doing it in Ukraine.
You seem to forget that Ukraine has hundreds of km of borders with NATO countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania). Refugees go out, military supplies go in. How would that happen in Taiwan.
Yes, there's no direct land route for Taiwan's allies to use, but the same is true of Chinese forces trying to get onto the island. Their supply routes may be shorter than Taiwan's, but they are just as vulnerable.
Both sides are likely to suffer a majority of their losses just trying to supply their troops, and the effectiveness of submarine warfare against enemy shipping and air superiority against enemy airlifts will determine victory in the long run. So long as the West maintains superior submarine and carrier fleets, they offset the longer supply lines. If China catches up in either or both of those areas, the advantage of shorter supply routes starts to tilt in their favor.
Invasion of Taiwan would require the largest amphibious assault in history. And it's easy to point defensive artillery at the water.
So the PRC would need air superiority to disable those defensive positions, which would immediately pull the US and allies into the fight.
There's no Blitzkrieg option. By the time the PRC reaches the semiconductor facilities they will be scuttled. And consider the straight of Malacca instantly closed too. To win the invasion of Taiwan, the PRC would essentially need to defeat the military of the US and every Pacific ally.
I wouldn't move to Taiwan any time soon, but (despite the rhetoric) invasion still seems unlikely... Unless starting a war is the end goal itself.
do you know why he specifically mentioned about England need tea leaf? because he trust that if foreigners do not drink tea, they will constipate and die...
I mean, even if he did actually believe this (which, realistically, he almost certainly did not; at this point China would have had reasonable intelligence about the west, and would know that most Europeans and indeed most British people at that time did not drink tea daily), the context is that Britain refused to stop its merchants from dealing class-A drugs in China (really it tacitly encouraged it), so it wouldn't be _that_ out-there a threat?
If you are curious about the trend of the militarization of the police I'd suggest reading "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" by Radley Balko.
One thing the book points out is that since the first SWAT team was formed in LA back in the 1960s, even law enforcement agencies with as few as 28 officers have SWAT teams. One of the things the author attributes this to is a "me too" attitude where one department hears another local agency has a SWAT team with special equipment and weapons. Somewhat jealously the agency decides they need one too. Even if the population they are serving has no history of the kinds of violent and/or dangerous crimes that normally require SWAT.
This essay hit me particularly hard because I've been on the opposite side of this where I was the one not realizing my significant other's needs. It makes you question a lot of yourself. To think you can cause another person so much pain through your own action and/or inaction is hard to come to terms with. I don't think I meant to hurt someone else, but that was the result. It is easy to be oblivious or flat out ignore other people's emotional needs.
For me, I realized that what I should have been doing was just communicating my thoughts and feelings better. Meanwhile being able to accept my own limitations. Can you become a romantic overnight? Can you be completely open and honest about all your fears? Of course not, these things take time to learn how to do successfully and naturally. You might realize you cannot fulfill everything for your partner and maybe it won't work.
Realistically there are a lot of relationships that will fail. We tend to think their ending is some sort of cataclysm. The author put's this so well:
"There are ways to be wounded and ways to survive those wounds, but no one can survive denying their own needs."
At some point you need to be honest with yourself about what you need in life at an emotional level. It is very hard to go through life pretending otherwise or constantly sacrificing for nothing in return. For me that is the lesson of the Crane Wife tale.
You can make $150K+ by doing some really mind numbing work. I am seriously considering almost halving my salary to do something that gets me excited to go to work again.
Anyways, like other people have mentioned timing can be very useful. In trying to leave I was offered raises and from one guy a chance to take on whatever role I wanted to. Still leaving though.
I will always remember the episode in the Ken Burns' documentary "The War", when he describes his service during the Second World War and how somewhat unbeknownst to himself, he became the last war Crow chief.
And if you saw it in a movie most would say how full of BS it was. I do love the world because some truths are weirder than fiction. Plus, a Crow war cry echoing in Europe makes me giggle.
At Big Health our digital therapeutics — Sleepio for insomnia, Daylight for anxiety, and Spark Direct for depression — provide treatment anytime, anywhere. In pursuit of our mission, we’ve pioneered the first at-scale digital therapeutic business model, in partnership with some of the most prominent global healthcare organizations, including CVS Health and the UK’s NHS.
We use a variety of technologies, but mostly we're a react-native frontend that uses django and postgre running on AWS shop.
We also have some Frontend positions open as well that are not on lever. You can reach out to me directly for those at timothy dot hou at bighealth.com with HN in the subject.
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