Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock

Post by pyreko » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

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I still like to buy my cheap and esoteric Chinese stuff from Amazon. It's a good balance of not-too-slow-delivery and not-too-expensive for very specific stuff. And it's easy to return if it doesn't work. Example last purchase: An optical SPDIF/TOSLINK to 3.5 mm DAC box (5V/USB-powered) to put behind the TV with a broken/very low quality audio output. It was about $15 including 25% VAT. Probably like $5 on Aliexpress…

In Europe, most of Aliexpress delivery is 10 days (except during Chinese New Year).

Post by nozzlegear » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC

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> I've been wondering if it is even possible for a publicly-traded company to deliver a voice assistant product without these incentives involved. I have to imagine the UX of these devices would be much different if they were built by a private company without the same market pressures. Apple's HomePods have never had ads and don't require a subscription/data collection to control home devices.

But you have to interface with the software delight known as Siri

Post by mooreds » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

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> Its PPC ad platform is completely predatory, loaded with dark patterns and hidden defaults that add billions to top-line revenue while strip-mining the accounts of sellers who often have no choice but to participate in the auctions. At least they mark ads as 'sponsored', even though it isn't super prominent. I always scroll until I see organic results, myself.

They mark some of them. Not all of them. Last article I read said 80% of placements on the search results page are paid ads. And they only mark like 4-5 of them as "sponsored"

Post by interactivecode » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

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semiquaver wrote: post #15

Berkshire Hathaway has my favorite website (or, WEB page, as they style it) of any big company: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

99/100 Lighthouse performance score. Good reminder that every web page starts off fast by default and is only made slow by designers and frameworks.

Post by DANmode » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

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Why? This doesn’t give the vibes of an amateur personal site - it’s a timeless business site.

Not sure I agree with "timeless." This site is like opening a time capsule.