[kelnos]

> Not every blog is written to be discussed on Hacker News.

It may not be written with that intent, but if you publish something publicly on the internet, you run the risk of some people, somewhere, discussing what you wrote.

That doesn't mean you have to care what those people have to say. Frankly, she shouldn't care what we have to say.

But if you put something out there, and someone reads it, they're well within their rights to have whatever reaction they want to it.

Re: "being nice for the sake of niceties", I agree with you, but her attitude toward the people who work for the pump manufacturer (who did nothing wrong, and in aggregate built life-saving devices so reliable that it took a quarter of a century before her first problem came up) is just not ok. "Beyond the pale" is a phrase that comes to mine, and I don't think I'm being hyperbolic here.