This is a curious case of bait and switch. Ireland attracts Apple through low taxes. The EU rules this is an illegal subsidy for Apple by Ireland, harming other member states. So why should Ireland be entitled to the money, but not those member states?
Show HN: How much is 13B euros?
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#32Ugh, the cost of that bike shed hurts. It's more money than my bike enthusiast father has ever had in net total assets (not accounting for pension, but yes accounting for house) + my entire net worth as an adult man in my thirties, and that's just a one for one number comparison without accounting for exchange. Hopefully it'll do it's job well and last forever, but it's just another reminder that whichever number I come up with to charge someone for services, it's not enough until it feels absurd, otherwise it'll get spent on some other totally asinine thing (not that a bike shelter is asinine, but the cost compared to the result does seem to be).
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#33The fact that its only 25K homes is crazy
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#34It's also the amount that Tim Cook keeps in cash in his wallet for paying small fines and such.
Being less facetious - Apple has $166Billion in cash so 13 billion euro is a good enough chunk of it - 10%.
https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...
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#35It might aford a rail system connecting the major Dublin airport. I have my complaints about how Ireland spends it's money but all in all, it's less corrupt than other places I've lived in.
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#37Since this seems to be a dual purpose post with the secondary goal of promoting calculang, I'll say I do not understand the value prop of calculang at all. It doesn't look like a library or language or anything, it just looks like plain javascript.
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#38It's barely enough to subsidise a war for one year...
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#39It's barely enough to subsidise a war for one year...
I'm not sure, that sounds like a pretty cheap war to me then.
It's barely enough to pay for 5 days of the US defense budget, and they're not even fighting a war at the moment.
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#40If Apple got a 13 billion dollar fine every single month, it would take 22 years for it to exhaust their networth.
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