[lxwang]

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[jljljl]

Can we just sticky this to the top of all posts with question marks so that we don't have to have it reposted every. single. time. ?

[raganwald]

The trouble is, the law cuts both ways: "You can go out and spec a similar machine to the new Mac pro, but should you?"

So if we adopt the law wholesale, we can editorialize by reversing the premise we wish to imply.

[quarterto]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893

[phpnode]

sorry quarterto, this is actually The Fourth Law of Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722251

[quarterto]

Which by some fluke is exactly twice as old as my law!

[elyrly]

Great Quote