ammonium

joined 2 years ago
[–] ammonium 5 points 3 weeks ago

The last one is only true because before capitalism we didn't produce enough food.

[–] ammonium 9 points 1 month ago

It's not that hard. They don't need aid to continue to fight, but they do need aid to be able to win.

[–] ammonium 0 points 2 months ago

You guys shouldn't complain, you still have saldering (net metering) ánd get money for the electricity you have left which is still a huge subsidy.

[–] ammonium 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't really used any other platforms so I can't really compare but I have encountered enough audio issues too. Especially with new Teams and bluetooth devices.

[–] ammonium 1 points 2 months ago

August 6th 1945: a small forgotten shrine in Hiroshima gets obliterated by the nuclear blast of Little Boy. This was one of the seven shrines holding the fabrics of spacetime together. Slowly spacetime starts to unravel, in the beginning nothing seems unusual but slowly the timeline becomes more and more unlikely. Can our hero stop the unraveling in time?

[–] ammonium 4 points 2 months ago

There are plenty of companies that never pay dividends, yet people buy them.

II struggled with this as well for a while. You can look at it this way, they are worth money because they could pay dividends, but they don't actually have to. Your bar of gold is worth a certain amount of money equal to the money you could sell it for, and your money is worth something because you could buy something with it.

[–] ammonium 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Because that's how the stock market works, the price of a stock is the current value of assets (including cash) + expected earnings (with some correction factors for risk and time). If the company pays out $x of cash it's $x worth less. You might not always see it it the stock price because expected future dividend payments are also already priced in.

How do you think it works?

[–] ammonium 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Imagine you have 10 stocks worth $10 each.

Scenario 1: There is $1 dividend per stock. You now have 10 stocks worth $9 each for a total of $90 in stocks and $10 in cash.

Scenario 2: There is no dividend but you decide to sell 1 stock, you now have 9 stocks of $10 for a total of 90$ in stocks and $10 in cash.

These scenario's are equivalent unless the stock wasn't priced correctly.

[–] ammonium 1 points 2 months ago (8 children)

A dividend is just a forced sale of your stock

[–] ammonium 2 points 2 months ago

Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors... That's more than there are grains of sand on earth

[–] ammonium 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Of course, why would they not?

[–] ammonium -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At the cost of voter anonymity, which shows exactly what is wrong with voting by mail. It's impossible to prevent fraud while preserving anonymity. Not silly billy at all.

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