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Haven't you ever caught yourself checking Hacker News, Facebook, any other social media site once too often?

Yes, but that's the reason I don't have a smartphone. I totally recognize the addictive element in my personality and I stay as far away as I can from things that can take me down. HN on a PC is bad enough, on a smartphone it would be a disaster.

FOMO is programmed into humans at a deep survival level, it’s hard to fight something that exploits a fundamental chink in your armour. Same with obesogenic foods.

Did you read the article, which is explicitly making this point (only, with actual argument instead of assertion)? Or do you just troll HN responding to headlines?

> Did you read the article

Asking 'did you read the article' is just about the oldest troll on HN, so pot, meet kettle.

It also seems that that is a favorite pastime of yours, to ask if people read the article, such as here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16016803

Only an hour ago.

Personal attacks are not allowed here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You'll notice there's also a guideline explicitly asking users not to do the "did you read the article" trope.