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Why? He owns those companies.
I guess it would be like Bill Gates advertising for Windows and Xbox at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Like I get the incentive but it doesn’t seem like the right place for it
This type of website, with just the addition responsive text, is how most of the internet should ideally be.
If the web had stoped innovating and improving at this level of design it wouldn't have the GDP it does now. Your comment would almost fit better as a reply on the linked page from this other front page post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661
This type of website, with just the addition responsive text, is how most of the internet should ideally be.
Please no, I like interesting and engaging design
“The more beautiful the brochure, the more skeptical you should be.” - popular saying amongst Dutch investors
Obviously the trick is to own the companies that sell with the beautiful brochures, as is the case here. 40% of BH's publicly-traded holdings are AAPL stock. 11% is Bank of America. 9% is Chevron. 7% is Coca Cola. https://www.cnbc.com/berkshire-hathaway-portfolio/ You could replicate 84% of the publicly-traded side of BH with 8 US-based holdings. But BH trades at 1.5x price to book... not sure if it's really worth it…
This type of website, with just the addition responsive text, is how most of the internet should ideally be.
If the web had stoped innovating and improving at this level of design it wouldn't have the GDP it does now. Your comment would almost fit better as a reply on the linked page from this other front page post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661
But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
Why is there a Geico ad on the site?
In my opinion a ton of class and prestige is lost by putting an ad on a front page. So it must yield their subsidiary huge returns to be “worth” it. Disclaimer: am not a billionaire.
Same dude loves buying hail damaged cars. This is a hail damaged website. Works fine. Sells insurance while you’re there.
I wish more websites/companies realized how effective, practical, and beautiful this design is.
I want to make websites like this and run into the same problem every time: phones exist now. The website is illegible on my phone. I have to do some zooming and panning and it feels awful. It’s difficult to have a nice “classic web” page that runs on phones without a lot of care to use media queries. Not that that’s a deal breaker but it quickly departs from the “keep it simple” philosophy of these designs when you…
I see this complaint often, but I don’t get it. Zooming and panning are two dead simple gestures on any smartphone browser, no more difficult than scrolling. Out of all the annoyances I’ve encountered visiting a website on my smartphone, having to zoom or pan ranks near the bottom for me. Why is it such a nuisance for others?