groundlogic

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 enthusiasts. They flow quite low-height over beautiful places in the Nordics during this flight.

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 sure there's a way of figuring out the public IPs for their NATs etc.

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've got some way to catch up though; you even allow a lot of really bad food substances that are banned in the EU (and most of the civilized world), just because... profits. It's all kind of a sad states of affairs for a supposedly first world country.

"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 digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

How about just disabling the third-party ads along with their invasive tracking until you've figured out a way to monetize the long tail of traffic from EU?

"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 scenario.

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 investor crowd better".

This is madness.

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?

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 immigrants, but they were probably amongst the 5-10% highest paid people in the country.

(Swede here.)

What rule am I breaking?

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.