<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rithdmc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rithdmc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:48:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rithdmc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rithdmc in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> London and Belfast are both in the UK<p>My question was more to do with the European Single Market, and the considerations given to Belfast during Brexit negotiations. That's where my ambiguity came from.<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I hadn't seen a price difference like that.<p>I'm unsure about the following. Do you know if flights between London and Belfast be covered under EU airline rules regarding missed and delayed flights?</p>
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<p>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.<p>Ten minutes <i>is</i> a long time. That's the purpose of dark patterns.</p>
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<p>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.<p>Compared to the high likelihood of delays or cancelled flights with Ryanair, I think it's worth it for peace of mind.</p>
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<p>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 software, but some games and Encarta included) via the usual means.</p>
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<p>Today I learned Encarta was not free.</p>
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<p>I expect companies to honour their legislatively required, and their advertised, warranty.</p>
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<p>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.<p>After they finally engaged with the warranty, they had someone come out to 'fix' it once every couple weeks until I gave up and just bought a different brand washer/dryer.<p>I'm now sworn off Beko, and will happily tell everyone I can about my terrible service :)</p>
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<p>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.<p>I've already outlined how I was criticizing the news cycle.</p>
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<p>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.<p>In Ireland, for as long as it has existed with its own government, the two have been pretty heavily intertwined.</p>
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<p>> is that your whole point? What are you proposing - that we ignore stories like this until we fix healthcare?<p>IMO that's a pretty antagonistic read of my comment. GP said 'bigger story', you said 'visceral story'. In no way do I read myself or the GP dismissing the B&M story - quite the opposite, as GP says, noting "millions of dollars in PR damage" doesn't sound like ignoring something.<p>The second half of my comment was criticizing the news cycle, and its preference for unique headlines.</p>
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<p>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, tomorrow, or next week.<p>This headline about star wars lego? Less so.</p>
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<p>idk about you, but I don't pay my taxes to sports authorities.<p>The sports authorities get my gambling losses.</p>
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<p>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 reality of policing ("protect and serve the wealth").</p>
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<p>For a specific example, see the WNBA green sex toy Polymarket betting debacle.</p>
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<p>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 much.</p>
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<p>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 trade. Guns don't move themselves!</p>
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<p>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.<p>I think using the 60s as a comparison unfairly implies the CIA rehabilitated sooner than should be implied.</p>
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<p>I didn't see anything about this in the opinion.<p>It does say that multiple owners of a single property can not have their voting rights apportioned by value, as this would be dilution or would not fit one person/one vote.</p>
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