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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be r...
on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:07PM (#27635612)
What if the followup procedure is invasive and expensive? It's possible that this procedure could be net negative in aggregate depending on the % of false positives and # of resulting needless followup procedures. Not to mention the emotional stress.
Re:Surface Laptop 4
on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:48PM (#26797158)
I'd still expect the AMD version to have better battery life because the numbers are probably 30% lower across the board right?
Re:Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount
on Saturday March 28, 2020 @12:48AM (#22709270)
> While I'm ranting, why do they let basements or single floors of a shared house count as an 'entire place'? It's really weird to turn up and see you're actually in a basement in the owners house with their kids stomping around upstairs.
Would you describe a room in a hotel as an "entire place" or a "shared space"?
Re:Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:30PM (#21210611)
Genuinely curious -- do you have a source for this?
Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:41AM (#18918517)
Do you have any sources on that? I have family in the hotel industry and anecdotally the entire industry in my area took a nose dive in the last recession. Not quite the same as general demand for travel but it's more relevant to how Airbnb would perform in a recession.
Re:Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and co...
on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:11PM (#17752736)
Have you been making a (literal) apples to apples comparison though? I find that farmer's markets in my area (Seattle) can be cheaper than Whole Foods for organic locally sourced things in season but definitely more expensive than going to a regular grocery store.
Re:Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money
on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @12:35PM (#16538051)
>> No one sane plays a game like that with all their money on the line.
Already mentioned in another comment, see LTCM as a prime example:
Re:Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:51PM (#15828459)
I think it's that the goal posts have shifted, i.e. distribution used to be the bottleneck for alot of people but now that it's easy (for internet businesses) there's a new bottleneck.
There's so much stuff on the internet that it's a problem of discovery, which is why Google became so dominant.