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Or just buy a games console. Articles on the internet exist primarily as free entertainment. If I am going to spend money on entertainment, there are much mor

• majewsky 9y ago
  That's dismissing all the genuinely insightful articles that I discover through my subscription [1] to HN. [1] Read: Addiction. :)
  • resf 9y ago
    Perhaps read a book. Just visit your local real or virtual library. My point is not that articles on the internet are useless. But there is a certain tunnel vision in these discussions where we forget there are other _even better_ ways to spend our time. Whether you want education or entertainment, paying $x/month to Google is not the right way to achieve it. Go paintballing instead.
    • majewsky 9y ago
      Not disputing that. But reading HN is something that I can do during work while waiting on a job to complete. Reading a book is much harder because the information is not quite as bite-sized and thus harder to ingest if you have only five minutes at a time. And paintballing is a whole other level of impossible during work time. :)