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Comment by checkyoursudo | Hacker News Reader

Lotta comments talking about waste of time, waste of money.

You can have your own preferences for what you would spend your money and your time on without trying to force your preferences on others.

I could be making a lot more money than I do, but I would rather waste my time on hanging out with my kids.

Don't be so quick to judge what other people waste their resources on.

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I don't know why you've been down voted. But I agree with you - I'll make less money and spend time with my family.

Dunno. Doesn't matter. I just think it's a bit weird that so many people care what others waste time on. We all have our things that we like to do that don't make a lot of sense to other groups of people.

Edit: See, even I am doing it there, thinking it's weird that other people waste time on caring about what other people waste time on. If you want to waste time on trying to convince people that they should be more productive, and that makes you happy, then go for it!

Live and let live.

Yep. Not just time but money! It's their money and they can do wtf they want with it. I choose to drive a shitty Skoda so I can spend money on what I think is more important, than which car I drive. Others can drive their 100-200k cars if they want, and I won't criticize them for their purchases (which are incidentally much less costly than the 70k this guy spent on an app).

People should not propose a law to stop that guy from wasting money, but people should be allowed to have an opinion about what is wasteful and what not, and allowed to speak out their opnions.

I agree 100%

Time spent "reading HN" is definitely more wasteful than "hanging out with [your] kids"

maybe - what if you're hanging out with your kids smoking blunts? What if you find an article on hn that completely changes how you do software dev and your productivity increases 20% from that point out? Definitely is a strong word.

Maybe to you it is. To me it would depend on the content I'm reading on HN or the activities (or lack thereof) while hanging out with my kids.

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