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I was once told by somebody wise that if a post asks a question, then the answer is usually no.

e.g.: Is Mountain Lion going to kill Windows 8? .. etc.

A meta-corollary: whenever a headline with a question mark appears on Hacker News, there will be at least one comment referring to Betteridge.

(Please, can this stop?)

Ultra-meta: Whenever a repeating meme occurs on the internet, there will be someone asking for it to stop. And the answer to whether it will stop will be no.

Recursive-super-ultra-meta-induction: Whenever someone refers to a level of meta-ness, someone else will refer to level n+1.

Transparently false: this thread's length is measurably finite.

For now.

It will always stop, at least for the most part. It will take a long time, though, and by then it will only be a dim memory, so you probably won't notice.

(Netcraft confirms: BSD is dying!)

Why? I never heard about this "law", and now I just learnt about it.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

haha!

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