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Today I learned about Betteridge's Law [0], which seems apt here. It states that when a news headline asks a question, the answer is always "no." When it applies to a paper, I'm disinclined to take the paper seriously...

[0] -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

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This gets posted on EVERY submission ending in a question mark. It was old 2 years ago. Now it's just plain trite, pointless, tiresome and distracting.

Nevertheless, the title does read a bit like clickbait.

I self-aggrandizingly call this tome's law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549

Why not skip to the end? When enough articles (ending in a question mark or not) are discussed the probability of Betteridge's law (as well as anything else) being mentioned approaches 1. There everybody goes, forever, we are completely done with that class of stuff now. You're welcome :P

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