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The answer to any question posed in a title is no. Try it sometime. If you see a title question mentally just say “no”. The reasons for this law of media are
by reillyse 4y ago
The answer to any question posed in a title is no.
Try it sometime. If you see a title question mentally just say “no”.
The reasons for this law of media are manifold but boil down to 1) if there was evidence that the thing would happen they would state it. I.e. this title would read California will eliminate..
2) there is no 2
What’s left is for you the reader to try and figure out why the author is trying to scare people by posing a question even they know can only be answered in the negative.
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- pessimizer 4y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=10&prefix=false&query=betteridge&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=10&prefix=false&q... "tome's law: In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549