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  • #91
    Originally posted by Asher
    I don't know what your problem is. I didn't misread.

    You took a 5 year growth rate and compared it to the quoted 25 year growth rate for Calgary. The only way to do this is to extrapolate. Do you even realize that?

    You didn't compare like metrics, you fudged the numbers until they were like at which point I told you you can't do that.


    Okay, I'm going to try doing this with really small words.

    Let's say I have a population of 100 midgets. After 25 years their population is 200. This means that their population grew at about 2.8% annually, on average, during that period.

    Let's say I have another population of 100 midgets. After 5 years their population is 115. This means that their population also grew at about 2.8% annually, on average, during that 5-year period.

    Therefore, for at least a particular 5-year period, the second population of midgets was experiencing a growth rate equivalent to the first.

    What the hell -- you just took a 5 year metric and compared it to one over 25 years (as an estimate) then you decided to give me **** for being more precise? You're upset with me because I was being precise, I'm asking for you to find equivalent real numbers rather than relying on projections or extrapolations to make that claim.


    I never once extrapolated anything. I compounded the numbers to perform a mathematical comparison, one exactly equivalent to comparing the average annual growth rate.

    Jesus Christ, I thought you'd be able to understand this.

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    • #92
      Can we get back to how a low level city bureaucrat considers themselves among the elite?

      As someone who recently bolted government life for the private sector, I find that notion perplexing. There are very very few positions in local government that I would consider "elite"-Mayor (or functional equivalent) and Chief of Staff, City Counsel members, Chief DA and a few higher-ups, a few judges, and maybe a handful of others.

      What is top 5% in NYC, anyway, I'm guessing mid six figures/year if not upper sixes?

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      • #93
        Originally posted by SlowwHand
        What labour shortages? Any manufacturing planning needed? I could be looking soon. Never know.
        Wildlife feeders.
        (\__/)
        (='.'=)
        (")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination.

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        • #94
          Originally posted by asleepathewheel
          Can we get back to how a low level city bureaucrat considers themselves among the elite?

          As someone who recently bolted government life for the private sector, I find that notion perplexing. There are very very few positions in local government that I would consider "elite"-Mayor (or functional equivalent) and Chief of Staff, City Counsel members, Chief DA and a few higher-ups, a few judges, and maybe a handful of others.

          What is top 5% in NYC, anyway, I'm guessing mid six figures/year if not upper sixes?
          Spot on.
          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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          • #95
            Originally posted by Kuciwalker
            Originally posted by Asher
            I don't know what your problem is. I didn't misread.

            You took a 5 year growth rate and compared it to the quoted 25 year growth rate for Calgary. The only way to do this is to extrapolate. Do you even realize that?

            You didn't compare like metrics, you fudged the numbers until they were like at which point I told you you can't do that.


            Okay, I'm going to try doing this with really small words.

            Let's say I have a population of 100 midgets. After 25 years their population is 200. This means that their population grew at about 2.8% annually, on average, during that period.

            Let's say I have another population of 100 midgets. After 5 years their population is 115. This means that their population also grew at about 2.8% annually, on average, during that 5-year period.

            Therefore, for at least a particular 5-year period, the second population of midgets was experiencing a growth rate equivalent to the first.

            What the hell -- you just took a 5 year metric and compared it to one over 25 years (as an estimate) then you decided to give me **** for being more precise? You're upset with me because I was being precise, I'm asking for you to find equivalent real numbers rather than relying on projections or extrapolations to make that claim.


            I never once extrapolated anything. I compounded the numbers to perform a mathematical comparison, one exactly equivalent to comparing the average annual growth rate.

            Jesus Christ, I thought you'd be able to understand this.
            I still do not buy your excuse but it also happens to be so boring that I'm not going to argue the point anymore.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #96
              OK let's get back on topic here.

              He's more than likely no where near being part of the elite.
              He is a self proclaimed snob.
              He's also demonstrated that he's a bore.
              He claims not to care what people think but posts right after anyone thinks something about him.

              Did I miss anything?
              It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
              RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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              • #97
                This thread is a disgrace. I think 'poly may have just jumped the shark.

                -Arrian
                grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                • #98
                  Rah, stop trolling Asher...

                  <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
                  I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by Arrian
                    This thread is a disgrace. I think 'poly may have just jumped the shark.

                    -Arrian
                    The delicious irony is every single thread where somebody mentions "jump the shark", that thread "jumps the shark". The whole "jump the shark" phrase has "jumped the shark".

                    You're fired.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #100
                      Originally posted by rah
                      OK let's get back on topic here.

                      He's more than likely no where near being part of the elite.
                      He is a self proclaimed snob.
                      He's also demonstrated that he's a bore.
                      He claims not to care what people think but posts right after anyone thinks something about him.

                      Did I miss anything?
                      He probably wears top hats and has a fashionable cane also. It's what all of the elites do in NY.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #101
                        Originally posted by snoopy369
                        Rah, stop trolling Asher...

                        /me runs from a rabid ferret on the loose mumbling about biting a beagle
                        Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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                        • #102
                          That and lording it over the peons at obscure web sites.
                          It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                          RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                          • #103
                            Originally posted by Asher


                            The delicious irony is every single thread where somebody mentions "jump the shark", that thread "jumps the shark". The whole "jump the shark" phrase has "jumped the shark".

                            You're fired.
                            grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                            The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                            • #104
                              Originally posted by rah
                              That and lording it over the peons at obscure web sites.
                              Poly is obscure?
                              If you don't like reality, change it! me
                              "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                              "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                              "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                              • #105
                                Ask 10,000 randomly selected Americans if they know what "Apolyton" is...
                                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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