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This is the first front-paged post I know of where nobody's invoked Betteridge's Law of Headlines, which I find particularly ironic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines



I was actually just about to post a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines, which is:

Any headline asking if Goldman Sachs committed malfeasance can be answered with "yes."


The article was very sympathetic toward Aleynikov and accounts his acquittal on appeal, so it breaks that "law" (which IMHO is upheld primarily due to confirmation bias).


which IMHO is upheld primarily due to confirmation bias

I agree; this was my point. Its frustrating to trot out a trite middlebrow dismissal for when we don't like something and to pretend it doesn't exist otherwise.




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