Show HN: How much is 13B euros?

Post by Aeolun » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

cornstalks wrote: post #28

The 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.

Post by Aeolun » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 12:11 AM UTC

brigadier132 wrote: post #9

soperj wrote: post #6

If 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.

Post by weddpros » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 12:19 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #39

weddpros wrote: post #38

It'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.

Post by happyopossum » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 12:23 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #43

brigadier132 wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

So you are saying they could pay a 13B dollar fine every month and still make ~1B dollar profit?

Post by fragmede » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 12:24 AM UTC

ok_dad wrote: post #27

nottorp wrote: post #14

1 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.