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Hyperbolic comparisons like these are very off-putting for me too, but I see them everywhere, presumably "for effect". The effect in this instance is that I sto

Hyperbolic comparisons like these are very off-putting for me too, but I see them everywhere, presumably "for effect". The effect in this instance is that I stopped reading.

emodendroket 9y ago
I'd saying having the yearly GDP of Bulgaria as AUM is still pretty impressive. And the point is more to contextualize. It's hard when you get past the millions to understand exactly how much we're talking about.
- smallnamespace 9y ago
  It's a bit odd though because I doubt the majority of readers will have any direct experience with Bulgaria to put it in context. It's like trying to explain X in terms of Y, when Y is equally unfamiliar.
  - emodendroket 9y ago
    "The yearly GDP of a sovereign nation, albeit a relatively small and poor one" is a lot more meaningful than $50b without context, I'd think.
    - orbifold 9y ago
      It is 1/4th of Toyota's or Volkswagen's revenue of one year, so not that much. And last time I checked they did not create a game for recruiting tech talent either.
      - emodendroket 9y ago
        Oh, only a quarter of the yearly revenue of the world's fifth-largest company by revenue, or the second-largest if we exclude state-run enterprises (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). Alright then.
        barrkel 9y ago
        Still stock vs flow.
        emodendroket 9y ago
        So what? I'm not trying to claim they're bigger than Bulgaria. If somebody compared the distance traveled by some object to the length of a football field, you could similarly object that the football field is stationary, the object isn't as long as that, etc., but none of those things are the point of the comparison, right?
- philipwhiuk 9y ago
  Not really: https://www.nbim.no/en/ https://www.nbim.no/en/
  - emodendroket 9y ago
    I mean, if your reference point is a state fund run by the government of an OECD country I suppose it's not that big.
hkon 9y ago
That is being overly sensitive.

Hyperbolic comparisons like these are very off-putting for me too, but I see them everywhere, presumably "for effect". The effect in this instance is that I stopped reading.

emodendroket 9y ago

I'd saying having the yearly GDP of Bulgaria as AUM is still pretty impressive. And the point is more to contextualize. It's hard when you get past the millions to understand exactly how much we're talking about.

smallnamespace 9y ago
It's a bit odd though because I doubt the majority of readers will have any direct experience with Bulgaria to put it in context. It's like trying to explain X in terms of Y, when Y is equally unfamiliar.
- emodendroket 9y ago
  "The yearly GDP of a sovereign nation, albeit a relatively small and poor one" is a lot more meaningful than $50b without context, I'd think.
  - orbifold 9y ago
    It is 1/4th of Toyota's or Volkswagen's revenue of one year, so not that much. And last time I checked they did not create a game for recruiting tech talent either.
    - emodendroket 9y ago
      Oh, only a quarter of the yearly revenue of the world's fifth-largest company by revenue, or the second-largest if we exclude state-run enterprises (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). Alright then.
      - barrkel 9y ago
        Still stock vs flow.
        emodendroket 9y ago
        So what? I'm not trying to claim they're bigger than Bulgaria. If somebody compared the distance traveled by some object to the length of a football field, you could similarly object that the football field is stationary, the object isn't as long as that, etc., but none of those things are the point of the comparison, right?
philipwhiuk 9y ago
Not really: https://www.nbim.no/en/ https://www.nbim.no/en/
- emodendroket 9y ago
  I mean, if your reference point is a state fund run by the government of an OECD country I suppose it's not that big.

hkon 9y ago

That is being overly sensitive.