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> but that causes us to ignore the huge amount of time VALUE you get back in your life with a smartphone

how can you be sure the smartphone doesn't have a negative aggregate time value? For example, I should probably be writing a patch to my code, but I'm sitting on the toilet writing an hn comment instead. Lots of people play candy crush, or swipe with no effect on tinder.

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The jury is still out on whether the things made possible by the data your phone provides to Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft (lol), Verizon, the NSA, etc. doesn't provide for a net negative in the end as well.

I'm doing OK YOY compared against Google, but I'm young and educated. Most people probably aren't.

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