If the company increases the number of shares through a split that is not dilution because it doesn't really mean anything.

如果公司通过股票分割来增加总股数,这不是摊薄,因为没有发生实质性变化

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And it happens all the time.

而它总在不停地发生。

对于抄袭的想法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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