Anyone (with sufficient karma, I guess; I don't recall, but HN gates a few features behind that) can flag for any reason, and sufficient flags will get a post taken down. HN is prickly - my guess is this got flagged because it's mostly poorly supported speculation. I didn't flag it myself, but did find it pretty ridiculous.
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off topic: may I ask why and how this has been flagged? How does flagging work and why do I still see the post on the second or third page listed?
Anyone (with sufficient karma, I guess; I don't recall, but HN gates a few features behind that) can flag for any reason, and sufficient flags will get a post taken down. HN is prickly - my guess is this got flagged because it's mostly poorly supported speculation. I didn't flag it myself, but did find it pretty ridiculous.