I’d say more than €5.
Show HN: How much is 13B euros?
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#24If Apple got a 13 billion dollar fine every single month, it would take 22 years for it to exhaust their networth.
This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their profit.
Most statistics are pointless. This is just a representation of what 13 billion is.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their profit.
Most statistics are pointless. This is just a representation of what 13 billion is.
Why parrot things that are pointless? Market cap is not "net worth", so what was the point of the comparison?
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#26If Apple got a 13 billion dollar fine every single month, it would take 22 years for it to exhaust their networth.
This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their profit.
Exactly. What a doodoo statement
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#271 km of freeway is 10-40 million so 325-1300 km of freeway. 1 km of high speed train line is 20-60 million so 216-650 km of high speed train Ireland's healthcare spending was 22.3 Bn in 2023, so 13 Bn covers 7 months of healthcare for the country. I see the OP included "In € 2.24Bn National Childrens Hospitals? 5.8 National Childrens Hospitals" so they're on the right track. We're talking about state spending here so…
> 1 km of high speed train line is 20-60 million so 216-650 km of high speed train
In America, that's how much it costs to build a 30km elevated train that goes ~45km/h (and it isn't going to be finished until ~25 years after work started):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Revised_sch...
I am totally for trains, BTW, but I wish we'd hire EU and/or JP train builders to plan and build our trains.
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#28The framing is kinda confusing in some questions. For example, "In € 2,000 one-off gifts? Answer: 1.3x € 2,000 gifts for each person."
But clearly that can't be per person globally. I had to read the code to see it was specifically about Ireland. Actually, they're all about Ireland.
I know the first question mentions Ireland but it's not obvious that all the questions are also scoped to Ireland.
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#291 km of freeway is 10-40 million so 325-1300 km of freeway. 1 km of high speed train line is 20-60 million so 216-650 km of high speed train Ireland's healthcare spending was 22.3 Bn in 2023, so 13 Bn covers 7 months of healthcare for the country. I see the OP included "In € 2.24Bn National Childrens Hospitals? 5.8 National Childrens Hospitals" so they're on the right track. We're talking about state spending here so…
> 1 km of high speed train line is 20-60 million so 216-650 km of high speed train In America, that's how much it costs to build a 30km elevated train that goes ~45km/h (and it isn't going to be finished until ~25 years after work started): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Revised_sch... I am totally for trains, BTW, but I wish we'd hire EU and/or JP train builders to plan and build our trains.
Sadly we got our problems, mainly the fact that there isn't a unified ticketing system.
But as long as you travel insode only one country it's great.
In Italy trains work well and i heard that actually Trenitalia is so good that it's expanding to other countries
Edit:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovie_dello_Stato_Italian...
Seems that trenitalia actually controls A LOT of companies across Europe, super interesting.
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#30relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/980/
I was hoping for “a million vs. a billion” but this one is definitely more relevant.