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Title is intentionally misleading even if it's technically accurate (given that "many" has no technical meaning).

• throwaway894345 4y ago
  Yep. "Many Americans are killed by lightning every year!" Technically true, but obviously sensational.
  • JohnFen 4y ago
    What's sensationalistic about that? It seems accurate and not loaded to me. "Many" just means "more than a few" and implies "less than a majority".
  • jefftk 4y ago
    I wouldn't consider 28 "many" in a context where it's less than one in a million. (https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infographic.html https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infograph...)
    • Godel_unicode 4y ago
      That is the point that gp is making. Many has no definition and many (see what I did there?) disagree about where it’s appropriate.
      • jefftk 4y ago
        I don't think it's even technically true in the lightning case
        • Godel_unicode 4y ago
          We’ve achieved recursion. Edit: how can something be “technically” true if the word has no definition?
• kdamica 4y ago
  I said 'many' because 'everyone who uses reserved capacity instead of on-demand pricing' was too long for a headline.
  • hgsgm 4y ago
    Thats why comments allow more characters. Editorializing belongs in comments.
  • bagacrap 4y ago
    Anyone who uses reserved capacity will see their prices double? That's still not true.