I forgot why I had a pdf of your cookbook, have you at some point gave this out for free?
It also made front page on HN a while back, maybe 6 months ago?
Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
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You would have to normalize buying elsewhere for it to make any difference.
When sellers invest time and effort into making it comfortable to buy, there is no problem at all getting customers to pay on your own website, outside of Amazon or other platforms like Booking.com or what have you. However, most sellers have a hostile attitude towards their own customers, whether the seller is a business or individual. They won't make a decent webpage, they won't make an acceptable and smooth buying…
Exactly--as a customer, I would love to buy elsewhere! Amazon is such a shitty company and I trust their listings so little, that they are the store of last resort for me. It would be super awesome if when I wanted a product, I could just... go the the manufacturer's web site and buy it. And there should be no mark-up because there is no middle-men. Instead of that, one of these usually happens:
1. The manufacturer doesn't sell its own products! This is usually the case. Often they will helpfully list "dealers" where you can go find it (which all charge more than Amazon).
2. The manufacturer sells the product but their purchase and checkout experience is brutal (and/or it doesn't accept my desired form of payment) and I drop out of the funnel in frustration.
3. The manufacturer sells the product but it is inexplicably 25-50% more than Amazon and 50%-100% more than used on eBay.
They might say they dislike Amazon but they seem to be doing everything they can to push their customers to them.
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- "Blacklist/whitelist DO reinforce the notion that black = bad and white = good" I'll bite. What's wrong with perpetuating the notion that the color black is evil and ruinous? Would humanity be kinder if we'd mourn our dead wearing colors other than black? (Would it be prosocial to start educating people about this issue at funerals?) Surely that's a much bigger concern than obscure jargon usage like "blacklist". If…
I appreciate your line of thinking. Yes some societies celebrate death and wear bright colours to 'mourn'. And yes, there are benefits associated. As to whether this is more or less of a concern than language usage; I'd argue the biggest problem with society today is absolutism. More than one thing can be—and usually is—true at any one time. We rarely need to decide one or other .. and using this as a line of argumen…
- "Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness."
The link you're making here is something I don't understand. If I'm black, and I'm at a funeral and everyone is wearing the color black, am I being disparaged? Or if I'm reading some code and the comment's talking about "blacklists"? Is that subjectively disparaging? Is that something I'd even notice at all, consciously or not?
I'm unreasonably confident the answer is a universal "no". For the same reason that as I'm writing this HN comment, at no point has imagery of mothers and fathers crossed my mind—even though the word "parent" is right there in the commenting toolbar*. Is it different for other people?
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Overly aggressive denials of simple requests ("please use another word") just make me wonder why you are so upset about it? Blacklist/whitelist DO reinforce the notion that black = bad and white = good, so what's the deal with using a different word? I truly don't understand why people would get upset by simple requests like that.
The term blacklist comes from the term black book, which originated in the 1400s as a reference to "a list of people who had committed crimes or fallen out of favor with leaders".
It is called that because King Henry VIII used a literal black book. Not everything is about skin color. Not everything is about American racial dynamics. Stop projecting your issues on everything.
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I love the copyright description. Is this book full of humor like this?
I would say yes. They try hard to make cooks laugh. This is one of their recipes: APOCALYPSE RAMEN This is basically like regular ramen soup but with three critical differences: - It is intensely chaotic, which is to say that you can pretty much toss anything into it and say you did it on purpose. - It's slightly healthier, if your depression has lifted enough that you want to eat something other than delicious, deli…
put boiling water in a jar and then shake it up? Ouch! when you agitate hot water, it evaporates a lot faster, bringing the pressure in the jar to great heights. If your seal is not good, or if you open the jar scalding water can come shooting out onto your hands.
a similar thing happens when you put boiling water in a blender and turn the blender on (your blender seal is not good) explosive results.
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Who actually actively thinks about skin colour when they use a word with a colour in it? Terms like "white lie", "white label", "white flag", "white whale", "whiteout", "blackmail", "black ice", "Black Friday", "black humour", "blackout", "in the black". At least I've never seen one of those words and thought to myself "hey, like the colour of someone's skin!" Not that skin colours are white or black. They're really…
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This is such an American take. A lot of people are not American and your issues are not ours. Stop the Cultural Imperialism. Educate yourself about the rest of the world.
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I appreciate your line of thinking. Yes some societies celebrate death and wear bright colours to 'mourn'. And yes, there are benefits associated. As to whether this is more or less of a concern than language usage; I'd argue the biggest problem with society today is absolutism. More than one thing can be—and usually is—true at any one time. We rarely need to decide one or other .. and using this as a line of argumen…
- "Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness." The link you're making here is something I don't understand. If I'm black, and I'm at a funeral and everyone is wearing the color black, am I being disparaged? Or if I'm reading some code and the comment's talking about "blacklists"? Is that subjectively disparaging? Is that something I'd even notice…
I don't think wearing black at funeral is signalling anything other than respect?
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Maybe in the USA, but over here, many book stores are a lot better at selling books (both on- and offline) than Amazon
I read a lot of books. It's pretty much my main source of entertainment. Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly. There's entire genres that only exist on amazon that will never appear in a bookstore.
> Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly