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Market cap weighting is special. If company A has 500 shares, company B 500 also, than a fund that has 5 shares of A and 5 of B is market cap weighted.
And what happens if company A issues more stock? Company B is delisted? Company C is now listed? Company A and C merge? Company A spins off it's most valuable side business into it's own independent listing company?
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No offense but your responses sound like AI or engagement farming. I think the "why are these rules good" is self-evident to anyone who read the comment.
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All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments.
You seem like a smart person. I'm sure you can think of some reasons why that might be useful.
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> Why would anyone "engagement farm" on HN? That's crazy. All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments. You seem like a smart person. I'm sure you can think of some reasons why that might be useful.
People make farming HN a part of their business model.
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> Why would anyone "engagement farm" on HN? That's crazy. All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments. You seem like a smart person. I'm sure you can think of some reasons why that might be useful.
Engagement farming works on social media platforms that reward engagement. Posting engagement bait in HN comments would just result in downvotes.
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>> I'm attacking their sources for being youtube and instagram Bzz..Bzz.- [LogicLint #GENETIC-FALLACY] Input: “It was on YouTube/Instagram.” Expected: refutation of claim. Received: complaint about delivery vehicle.
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> If S&P started arbitrarily excluding parts of the market they find uninvestable, then that's compromising the integrity of the index, and defeats the purpose of the index entirely. But they haven't started arbitrarily excluding parts of the market they find investable: on the contrary you are demanding they start arbitrarily change a long established and pretty basic rule to arbitrarily include pre-profit companies…
That's a fair point that the inclusion criteria are applied consistently, not arbitrarily. But I fundamentally disagree with their inclusion criteria. It was designed for traditional companies with low growth and high GAAP profitability, not high-growth companies rapidly reinvesting into the core business. Amazon is infamous for having positive cash-flow yet running near-zero GAAP earnings for nearly two decades, bec…
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-... Long listen but a very thorough and nuanced discussion by a bunch of smart investment / finance guys in Canada. No click-bait-sky-is-falling content.
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There's nothing wrong with someone sharing a link to a podcast they found interesting. That's normal and fine on HN. What's not fine is attacking other people or criticizing them for ordinary conversation.