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Comment by quickthrower2 | Hacker News Reader

> You can pick your jaw up off the floor now.

I certainly can ... my jaw dropped that this deserved a blog post.

Somehow rachelbythebay links always seem to jump to the top of HN, no matter how banal they are. I never understand it.

Not being able to get the specific type of free iced tea that she wanted annoyed her so much that she saved an email about it for (presumably) years so she could make a blog post complaining about how mildly rude her coworker was.

It’s pretty bizarre, but I guess it’s instructive about the bubble many HN users are in.

(My company doesn’t have a micro kitchen...)

You're right.

Adults debating about an imaginary problem, while it's a mere education issue.

I find more than normal not taking the last piece of cake or choosing another flavor of tea (or drinking water) if my favourite flavor is out of stock.

Oh, and I don't find so offensive going to the nearest supermarket or café to buy any groceries I need.

That is the one take away from this post. This is really a weird bubble of people with too much time and not enough issues.

Not my tea. Not my company. I am none of the people in the post.

I share things from other people and places, you know.

The link describes a problem that i) affects many people ii) is present in many different places (over-fishing is another example), iii) is persistent across different countries and time and iv) appears hard to fix.

This makes it interesting. It makes it interesting for HN because (for one example) people here set up services that sometimes include free "as much as you can use" tiers, and are then surprised when someone starts using that 24*7 for terrabytes of transferred data, way beyond the normal use patterns of everyone else.

There is a weird "Bay area" bubble entitlement on both sides of this story.

On one side the guy that wants to keep all the drinks for himself and thinks it's ok. On the other hand we got someone creating a blog post about "Microkitchen" which is something that 99.99% of the world's population has no idea about.

99.99% of the world's population probably would have no idea what MongoDB is, or Rust, or node.js, or whatever else might be the shiny thing of the week today.

Better complain about those, then. Get to it.

For me the crazy part is reading all the other comments on this page.

- buy more beverages

- increase beverage supply exponentially until supply catches up with induced demand

- it seems selfish to hoard beverages for yourself

- it’s not selfish because there’s no rule on the books about hoarding

- switch to fountain drinks

- implement an automated, personally trackable snack surveillance system with badges

- stop buying beverages altogether

What, it's crazy that people have opinions, or that they post them in comments?

Apart from selfish/unselfish points, all other points are systematic improvements

Wouldn't you agree systematic improvements are a better way to solve the problem instead of merely blame a particular person?

Also, if a person wants to take 6 bottles because it makes them more productive, I'd let them take 6 bottles.

It's a blog post, not a Nobel Winning paper.

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