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Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by JadeNB »

kube-system wrote: post #40
Bukhmanizer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They’re not Buffet’s side hustle. They’re Berkshire subsidiaries. It’s more like Microsoft’s website having an ad for an GitHub or LinkedIn on it.

Or like Google's home page advertising Chrome (which they did early on in its life, which was surely a big factor in how they grew their market share so fast).

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by my123 »

JadeNB wrote: post #71
kube-system wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re not Buffet’s side hustle. They’re Berkshire subsidiaries. It’s more like Microsoft’s website having an ad for an GitHub or LinkedIn on it.

Or like Google's home page advertising Chrome (which they did early on in its life, which was surely a big factor in how they grew their market share so fast).

They still do it.

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by BRKB »

On the other hand, Berkshire Hathaway is Apple's largest investor.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns and operates some of the world's largest wind and solar energy farms and is building state-of-the-art Terrapower (Bill Gates) nuclear reactors:

https://www.brkenergy.com/

There's a lot for a "tech investor" to like about the company. As a consequence, Berkshire has a top-notch subreddit, probably the best subreddit of any company:

r/brkb (https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/)

Other investors will appreciate that Berkshire owns all of a large part of America's freight transportation system:

https://www.bnsf.com/

And is the largest investor in important parts of its financial system (Bank of America), etc.

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by sicp-enjoyer »

Waterluvian wrote: post #19
miobrien wrote: post #17

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…

Default HTML is already responsive. What are you adding to break it on mobile?

(Of course, really old HTML that uses table based layout has problems.)

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by Waterluvian »

sicp-enjoyer wrote: post #75
Waterluvian wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Default HTML is already responsive. What are you adding to break it on mobile? (Of course, really old HTML that uses table based layout has problems.)

Nothing needs to be changed because it’s not a responsiveness problem. The font is tiny because the page was designed for a far wider screen than a phone. A little css could fix it: collapse the two columns of links into one when on a narrow screen.

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by mdasen »

Bukhmanizer wrote: post #25

It’s weird that the “message from Warren Buffett” is an ad for Geico and a jewelry brand. I get that they’re subsidiaries but still.

It's very on-brand for Buffett if you follow his stuff. He's always kinda hawking the stuff he owns. You'll see the can of Coke on the table at the annual meeting, you'll see him eating See's Candies, he'll talk about the brands he owns, etc.

It's not pushy or overly sales-like, but he is into a lot of the stuff he owns. The message about GEICO is really frank: different insurance carriers vary in their underwriting judgments, but he estimates that GEICO will offer the lowest rate for 40% of people which is more often than any carrier. Go to the website and see if you can save money.

For some of the businesses, it can be a bit personal. He bought Nebraska Furniture Mart over a handshake from someone he'd known for a long time.

It is a little weird, but it's certainly on-brand for him.

Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by breck »

PaulWaldman wrote: post #59

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Re: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Post by JadeNB »

my123 wrote: post #72
JadeNB wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or like Google's home page advertising Chrome (which they did early on in its life, which was surely a big factor in how they grew their market share so fast).

They still do it.

I just visited to check before posting, and didn't see it, but I guess I shouldn't assume that one visit to google.com is typical.
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