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The title is neither misleading nor linkbait. If you think the article is bad, you can't fix it by making up the title, just find a better article. It's really
by pvg 6y ago
The title is neither misleading nor linkbait. If you think the article is bad, you can't fix it by making up the title, just find a better article. It's really much more straightforward than you are making it out to be and does not require analysis of Orwells works. Although it is a somewhat curious choice on your part given that you seem to be trying to show that plain editorializing (i.e. "I found that to be the most relevant point") is not, in fact, editorializing. It's editorializing.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe original IMF title is a lie by vagueness. The article is evil in large part because it proposes an absolutely Orwellian regime ... well, pretty much precisely as Orwell suggests such things happen. In vague, political, bureaucratic, anodyne language, with no awareness or consideration of consequences, damage, or alternatives. As a reference to the evil, the article is invaluable. It is the primary source, straight from the horse's mouth. Much as, say, Mein Kampf was, and the reason a young journalist violated copyright to ensure that it was prominently available in the United States in unexpurgated form: <https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-14-mn-42699-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-14-mn-42699-...> You're presenting a false dichotomy of "making up a the title". The question is how best to find a truth within the mealy-mouthed source. Which has mostly been done (I'm not entirely satisfied with the present HN title "IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment", but it certainly improves on the original.
- pvg 6y agoLet's wrap up here but, again, there is a totally trivial remedy for an article being "evil". Just don't post it to HN.
- dredmorbius 6y agoExposing the evil is the utility here. Letting this proposal float unobserved is the greater evil. Sunshine ... isn't always a great disinfectant, but it is in this case.
- random5634 6y agoGood lord. The logic twists here are crazy. Anyways - in developing countries models along these lines are already being used - there are no or limited credit scores and identity issues can be big. So people are already getting financing as a result of this evil - usually microfinance
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