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Re:If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make... by nkingsy on Friday March 06, 2020 @05:38PM (#22508017)
Ice keeps things cold, and someone has to keep bringing new blocks of it to your icebox somehow.

Reviews are free data, and you have to know how to navigate them.

I don't see the difference.

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Re:If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make... by gruez on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:45PM (#22509370)
Right, but with ice, the mechanics are pretty simple: heat gets in and warms stuff up, and its behavior is predictable. OTOH, reviews are "free data", but you don't know whether it's a real review or a fake review. If you decide incorrectly (eg. believing the fake reviews over the real ones), you would end up in a worse position than you started out with.
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