Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000)

Re:Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) by rbosinger on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:59PM (#12258012)

"We ate a weird fruit and got poisoned. True story."

Why is this on the front page of Hacker News?

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Re:Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) by bobbles on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:33PM (#12258183)

I guess it helps you to remember that no matter how reasonably logical you think people might be, there are plenty of people out there who will eat random food they find off the ground

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Re:Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) by rbosinger on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:18AM (#12259639)

So, in the context of Hacker News, is it an analogy of how we tend to dive head first into new technologies which some times end up poisoning us? ;}

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Re:Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) by unfunco on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:11PM (#12258080)

34 comments so far, some of us find it interesting.

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Re:Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) by rbosinger on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:16AM (#12259635)

I found it interesting too. I just don't understand why it's on this site. I'd expect it on Reddit maybe.

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