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Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
by Eumenes 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
- choeger 3y agoWhich would imply there's at least one tool that is either faster or less expensive, which would be good news, wouldn't it?
- Vecr 3y agoNukes. Already paid for, so no more cost. Faster, should stop most emissions in a few weeks, after the fires go out.
- sitkack 3y agoIsn't apparent that a Nuclear Winter would actually occur. Now if we could nuke the moon and cause a dust ring to form ...
- qup 3y ago> Does Betteridge's Law of Headlines Reveal a Lifehack For Climate Change? No.
- kevinmchugh 3y ago> Does This "Law" of Journalism Mean You Never Have To Read an Article Again?
- birdyrooster 3y agoDepends
- matheusmoreira 3y agoNo, it means it's safe to utterly disregard clickbait articles whose titles ask stupid questions designed to entice you to read it so they can earn ad money.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoIt could also just imply that seaweed isn’t going to work for some reason.
- gregschlom 3y agogregschlom's law of headlines on HN: "Any headline on Hacker News that ends in a question mark will have a comment mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines" I'm not joking. It's been done so often that it doesn't add much to the conversation at this point. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=betteridge&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - over 2,000 hits.
- interroboink 3y agoYet be mindful of the Ten Thousand[1] when scorning reiteration. I, for one, had never heard of Betteridge's law (: [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ (though surely everyone has seen that comic zillions of times, by now)
- sokoloff 3y ago> though surely everyone has seen that comic zillions of times, by now I see what you did there. Nice!
- nathan_compton 3y agoGuess I have to write an article called "Does the title of this article prove Betterigde's Law?"
- giarc 3y agoHeadline "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?"