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.
Exactly! This reminds of the recent case of the AMA increasing the suggested age of regular mammograms. More testing means earlier detection of breast cancer. But a false positive means an invasive biopsy. These are the two sides that need to be balanced. The AMA decided that since the base rate of cancer is so low in women under 50, the posterior probability that you have cancer given a positive mammogram for the under 50 age group is considerably low. Therefore they decided that the increased costs (monetary and emotional) do not outweigh the benefits.
"Screening mammography reduces mortality from breast cancer, including in women younger than age 50 years. However, screening mammography carries harms such as false positive results that can lead to additional imaging and invasive biopsy procedures, and overdiagnosis that could lead to treatment in patients who may not benefit from it. The USPSTF considered the balance of benefits and harms using a commissioned targeted systematic evidence review of randomized clinical trials and a decision analysis that compared the expected health outcomes of starting and ending mammography at different ages and using annual and biennial screening strategies; it concluded (in part) that routine screening should begin at age 50 years and continue biennially until age 74 years."
> 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"?
Hotels are different from apartments and homes. Everything in a hotel, is by default, 'entire place'. Apartments and homes can be 'shared' or 'entire place', with the latter meaning you have the whole place to yourself. If the lister is an apartment owner, it means you have the whole apartment. A basement is not an 'entire place', unless the lister is just and only just the basement owner, which in most jurisdictions is a technicality that would not pass.
Airbnb markets it as you have access to the entire property as in an entire house. If you’re traveling with a family this is ideal but really hard to filter out if they let all sorts of apartments show up as an entire house. I believe they have or had a filter for apartments but honestly their search is really hard to get exactly what you’re looking for. The other thing you see is “entire home” actually being a bungalow in someone’s backyard.
A hotel is like renting an entire apartment in a purpose-built building. A floor in a house is usually a retrofit with none of the soundproofing a typical hotel has.
Yes, I didn't make those things up. They are not all from a single source though. I don't keep a list of everything I have read but here is one (in chinese):
Both links say the same thing - one old man, an expert on the history of the CCP, says Xi Jinping has a low level of cultural intelligence. They don't support the idea of this being a widespread notion.
As for control, intense power struggle is happening at the top right now, between Xi fraction and his opponents. Of course due to the opaque nature of Chinese politics nobody is sure.
Xi wants to be China's most powerful man since Mao but he is very insecure. So he is tightening control of the whole China, including Hong Kong (the extradition bill). It is working in the mainland but in Hong Kong it caused a blowback.
For me as an outsider it looks like Chinese people are scared from another massacre (for a good reason), but it's interesting to know that Xi's power doesn't look that stable for you.
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.
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.
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.
