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Did anything else happen in Vietnam in the 70s?

We're talking about dangerous substances you can buy OTC, and the health implications of those. Of course kratom and sugar fall into that bucket.

How so? Sugar is having taxes added in many jurisdictions due to the health effects & habituation it can cause.

In which currency? 1 billion Rupiah is less than 60,000 usd ;) A quadrillionaire would only need $60 billion or so.

> London and Belfast are both in the UK My question was more to do with the European Single Market, and the considerations given to Belfast during Brexit negotiations. That's where…

I don't think it's a weird case to compare two budget airlines to demonstrate why I think one is better than the other.

Thanks, I hadn't seen a price difference like that. I'm unsure about the following. Do you know if flights between London and Belfast be covered under EU airline rules regarding mi…

Whenever I have to book Ryanair, there's a lot of clicking back and forth between screens to confirm I've made the right choices. Ten minutes is a long time. That's the purpose of …

I don't find Ryanair much cheaper than Aer Lingus. In my experience there's up to a 20% premium, and I just cross checked the Alicante route for next week with the same results. Co…

Thanks. I'm Irish, no idea what the price (in Punt, it would have been!) should have been at. A family friend hooked us up with software that should have cost money (mostly Office …

Today I learned Encarta was not free.

I expect companies to honour their legislatively required, and their advertised, warranty.

Be thankful you didn't buy Beko. I had a horrible uphill battle trying to get them to honour a 2 year warranty in Ireland after about a years usage. After they finally engaged with…

You're getting pretty put out arguing that the news cycle should focus on this guy in particular and his illness in an article that doesn't mention it. I've already outlined how I …

I wonder what the crossover or relationships between the two - Persons of wealth in positions of power and the church - was here at the time. In Ireland, for as long as it has exis…

> is that your whole point? What are you proposing - that we ignore stories like this until we fix healthcare? IMO that's a pretty antagonistic read of my comment. GP said 'bigger …

I think it's more visceral, but a smaller story. 'yet another person merked by our predatory healthcare system' is a headline that will be relevant again, with new participants, to…

idk about you, but I don't pay my taxes to sports authorities. The sports authorities get my gambling losses.

This is the main reason I read comment threads on law enforcement stuff on HN. There's a bunch of people trying to square their opinion of policing ("protect and serve") with the r…

For a specific example, see the WNBA green sex toy Polymarket betting debacle.

Got it, thanks. The CIA's cocaine was still ending up on the streets of America during Iran-Contra, though, so I (in my very uninformed opinion!) don't feel like the CIA cared that…

I don't think it'd be difficult for the CIA to charter a cargo plane from somewhere in the USA without any questions being asked. They used to be very involved in the air freight t…

I'd move that up a bit! Iran-Contra was around '85, and that involved trading cocaine, which ended up on the streets of the USA, for arms. I think using the 60s as a comparison unf…

I didn't see anything about this in the opinion. It does say that multiple owners of a single property can not have their voting rights apportioned by value, as this would be dilut…

Or if someone with malicious intent noticed.