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Is it really a waste? I work in IT security and I find HN (and some other sites) very useful. Much insightful stuff in the comments. I spend a lot of time here

• somenameforme 4y ago
  There's certainly plenty of great content here, but if you could see the hours you've spent on it, and it ended up amount to days, and weeks, perhaps months of time - it starts to become a consideration of imagining what else you could have done with that time. "If I'd spent those hours doing [x], I'd [insert desirable thing] by now!" Of course shit posting is often much more enjoyable than "doing [x]" or we wouldn't be doing it in the first place, so there's some life balance issues - but it's a real consideration nonetheless. I often wonder how many Einsteins went without ever truly finding their niche; not because of lack of development in some area, but because of it! The internet can provide endless addictive entertainment and enjoyment, even of a higher brow nature. It's easy to lose yourself in it.