Both Primary and Foreign Key Needed on Table?
That part did not make sense to me either. The OP (of that question) states: 

"One deal can have many deal categories."

I assume that there can also be many deals in a deal category. So, the "proper" way to would be a DealCategory table:

DealCategory
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DealCategoryId (PK)


and a DealInCategory many-to-many table, with:

DealInCategory
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DealId (FK to Deal)
DealCategoryId (FK to DealCategory)
PK: (DealId, DealCategoryId)