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		3pt14159 on Oct 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Hum... Stock prices going up have nothing to do with the incentives of companies and everything to do with the availability of information. It'd be like a gumball machine trying to make itself more valuable. Just sell more gumballs at a hirer price.

j00lz on Nov 11, 2014 [–]

The incentive of public companies is everything to do with stockprice, as it is the primary metric to rate the performance of a company? What does information availability have anything to do with the value of a company?

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