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tome on April 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news org...

tome's law strikes again!

"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=24545238

phpnode on April 19, 2021 | [–]

I'm so sorry tome, but this is actually the Fourth Law of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722251

This predates tome's law by 3 years.

tome on April 19, 2021 | | [–]

Very interesting!

phpnode on April 19, 2021 | | | [–]

The Twelfth Law Of Hacker News: Any reference to Betteridge's Law will have at least one reply referring to the unreliability of Betteridge's Law.

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