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Wow, I had no idea American was still flying these. Back in 2013, SAS retired their last MD-80. The last flight was a special "museum flight" with the cabin filled with flight enth…

I kinda feel like organizing a program blocking journalists at these american newspapers that are blocking europeans.. from accessing european newspapers/sites. Just because. I'm s…

There wouldn't be any supposedly unbounded liability if they disabled the ads for that region they aren't really targetting anyway. Also: GDPR hygiene works in the US as well. You'…

"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digi…

"Copy-paste programmers across America are distrought, don't know what to do; suddenly try learning things on their own out of sheer desperation".

Mind explaining the concept of the marginal investor in this context ?

That has never happened (as far as I know, in modern history). Of course that's not a reason it can't happen, but I feel like you owe us at least a plausible decade downturn scenar…

Kinda makes sense. Still, it sounds like a very fragile system. So instead if active fund managers "knowing the market better", we'll get active fund managers, "knowing the passive…

Index funds have become successful since they've performed well compared to active investment funds. Why would the active investors suddenly get better at guessing the future?

Not an economist, but it's obvious to anyone used to thinking in terms of systems that index funds can't work after a certain amount of the money poured into the system is managed …

Really? I've never been as hung over as the day after I was drinking vodka with my polish counterpart software developers. Granted, they were still living in Poland, so not really …

What rule am I breaking?

Hey.. so based on my experience from the two previous HN articles this was mentioned in, in the previous hours, this submission will be flagged off the front page shortly. (Like in…

Sure; I get that part. But on the other hand, the message really seems to resonate with the average HN reader. Lots and lots of upvotes.. and then deletion.

This story just got flagged? I dunno... Anyway, my main complaint here is that it seems like a very small number of old users can shut down any story if they are acting together.

You're right. I rewrote that bit.

Heartbreaking story. Here's another story you should also consider reading: "[flagged] Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest (insider.com)" ht…

It was about the Hong Kong police using a new technology (likely "DNA paint") to mark protestors, likely for future prosecution

This story about the events in HK went from #2 of the front page to the bottom of page 2 very quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846681 At first I assumed that the HN …

At first I suspected the HN moderators, but now that I see that the story is flagged, I suspect.. that it was just that.. flagged by chinese HN users mostly in SV, patriotic to the…

Note: This story was just artificially moved from the top of page one to the bottom of page two.