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Re:Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn'... by bl4ckneon on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:32AM (#19816294)
Bro, if you think this is click bait then you clearly never looked at buzz feed or listicle websites. Sure there is a simple answer but this is an article explaining the history of it not a quora question...
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Re:Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn'... by taneq on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:03AM (#19816449)
It's a headline which leads with a question but doesn't give the answer, forcing you to click on it. Is that not the definition of clickbait? I mean sure, it's not as egregious as BuzzFeed et. al. but it still meets the criteria.
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Re:Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn'... by vinay427 on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:14AM (#19816755)
This is similar to saying books titled "Why ML is successful for image processing" or "How to meditate in a busy world" (both examples presumably don't exist) are clickbait because they state the question they are answering without the answer. It seems almost irresponsible to boil down an answer as long-winded as that in this article into a few words.
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