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Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?

A recent tomhow (and why) explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046



Thank you for sharing that link.

I figured only the deaths of people relevant to topics discussed on this forum, but I suppose it is extended to any death of great importance.


It’s roughly “sufficiently big or interesting real world events” for some value of sufficiently big or interesting.




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