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Comment by selcuka

4 hours ago

> I feel kinda bad for the writer, because it's a good question: no, curing patients is not a good business model, just like public transit is not a good business model.

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

Energy123's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark will have an associated comments section mentioning Betteridge's law, despite that law having being empirically falsified.

  • Selcuk's Law of Generalisations: Any mention of an adage will have an associated comment claiming that it can be falsified by giving at least one counter-example.

    • To you and your parent, I present:

      Nvader's law: Any law you named after yourself is ipso facto much less impressive.

    • The answer is 'yes' more than 50% of the time according to a few studies. It's not just one counter-example.