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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

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.

akhilcacharya 7y ago
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...)
- luismedel 7y ago
  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.
- rainyMammoth 7y ago
  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.
rachelbythebay 7y ago
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.
DanBC 7y ago
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.
rainyMammoth 7y ago
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.
- rachelbythebay 7y ago
  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.

akhilcacharya 7y ago

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...)

luismedel 7y ago
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.
rainyMammoth 7y ago
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.

rachelbythebay 7y ago

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.

DanBC 7y ago

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.

rainyMammoth 7y ago

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.

rachelbythebay 7y ago
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.