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Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

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Re: Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

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Post by pyre »

jimmies wrote: post #20

Oh man, oh man, this is so close to my experience. I went lo-fi since the beginning of 2017. Real testimonials of a drug/facebook/internet addict who has the problem out of control here. I killed my Facebook account 3 months ago, and switched to a dumb phone (from a Pixel phone ;-) since the beginning of the year. Now I'm rocking a webOS phone and no IM account except for hangouts which I check on my computer when I…

> Now I'm rocking a webOS phone

Which phones are webOS? I thought that it was essentially dead.

Re: Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

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Post by wpietri »

soreal wrote: post #267
Programmatic wrote: post #200

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The problem with sugar is, IMO, glycemic index. With glucose being an index of 100, no sugar being an index of 0, and something that takes a moderate amount of time to convert from starches/etc to sugar being 50, things that are higher than 50-60 tend to spike your blood sugar and cause insulin to scavenge the sugar out and store it in fat. Doing that often causes things like insulin resistance and obesity as you get…

I checked the table you linked and: Apple: 38 Banana: 51 Pineapple: 66 Watermelon: 72 vs. Ice Cream (premium): 37 Sponge Cake: 46 Frosted Flakes: 55 Snicker's Bar: 55 Fruits really are very high GI compared to regular snack foods. They're relatively healthy for other reasons though.

A perhaps better measure is glycemic load, which takes mass into account. 400 calories of frosted flakes is about 100g. 400 calories of watermelon is 1.3kg. Watermelon's glycemic index is worse, but at reasonable serving sizes, fruits generally end up being way better.

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Post by laughfactory »

I just wish our devices were designed with the recognition that we users of them, yes, even adults, may want some help limiting our usage of them. Something like granular parental controls, but for the average adult user. I'd love to be able to set a time limit, at the system level, on my ability to use my phone or computer. Or limit what apps and programs and sites I have access to. I.e., I want my computers, tablets, and phones to be mostly TOOLS, with reliable limits on how addicted I can get to 1) reading news, 2) watching YouTube, 3) watching Netflix/Prime, 4) browsing the web. Of course this is not going to happen because there's a lot of money in peddling addiction. Apple and Google make a lot of money serving ads, selling games and content, etc. So we really need another option who builds a really good TOOL which has limited entertainment potential.

Re: Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

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Post by Dunan »

truetraveller wrote: post #65
brian-armstrong wrote: post #4

Some people are alcoholics. They can't exist near an open can of beer without their life going to shambles. But most people aren't and don't have the urge to binge drink. I'm not sure how this is any different. The author of this article is an Internetaholic, therefore I should cut my tether to the Internet? And what of my LTE connection?

Just an observation, shouldn't it be Internetic, even though it sounds wrong: Alcohol-ic so Internet-ic

It should, but English lacks a suffix for "addicted to...", so people have taken the "-holic" of "alcoholic" and reinterpreted it to fill that void. The genie is out of the bottle now, so to speak, and we will probably continue to use "-holic" for all forms of addiction as long as English is spoken.

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Post by Programmatic »

soreal wrote: post #267
Programmatic wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with sugar is, IMO, glycemic index. With glucose being an index of 100, no sugar being an index of 0, and something that takes a moderate amount of time to convert from starches/etc to sugar being 50, things that are higher than 50-60 tend to spike your blood sugar and cause insulin to scavenge the sugar out and store it in fat. Doing that often causes things like insulin resistance and obesity as you get…

I checked the table you linked and: Apple: 38 Banana: 51 Pineapple: 66 Watermelon: 72 vs. Ice Cream (premium): 37 Sponge Cake: 46 Frosted Flakes: 55 Snicker's Bar: 55 Fruits really are very high GI compared to regular snack foods. They're relatively healthy for other reasons though.

You also cherry picked, figuratively speaking. More literally, you didn't pick the cherries at an index of 22. There are a lot of fruits in the 20s to 40s. I tend to stay away from both pineapple and watermelon.

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Post by jpttsn »

rudimental wrote: post #269
sigi45 wrote: post #265

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I look around, i'm not a very focused reader but i don't think a train is in any way a useful way of meeting people or communicating much. I don't value shallow talk with strangers very much. Or have you been on a subway and was discussion with someone strange daily politics?

People report being happier after talking to strangers on public transit. They also underestimate how open other passengers are to it. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/opinion/sunday/hello-stra...

Sea turtles live long. That doesn't mean lying on a beach all my life is right for me.

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Post by jackmott »

ungzd wrote: post #226
jackmott wrote: post #216

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If I may play devil's advocate: 1. to retire early 2. if you are in america, to ensure you can afford to live someplace where the schools are good for your kids. A sad state of affairs but it is what it is. 3. assuming you enjoy your work, to make some positive difference in the world before you inevitably die. 4. if you do not enjoy your work, then so you can get your hateful work done sooner, and then have time to…

But why even give birth to kids? To doom them into the same miserable life of working 20 hours a day?

dont know

Re: Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

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Post by viktorbenei »

StavrosK wrote: post #188
hbosch wrote: post #92

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The "set Do Not Disturb for 12:00AM - 11:59PM" trick has been amazing for me the past month or so I started the experiment. I set it to allow texts and calls from my Favorites through (e.g. wife, mom, dad) -- but essentially every other type of notification is non-urgent and likely even non-important. By far the best app to silence has been my email. I consider it a luxury that I can come home and not worry about it.…

I have my Android set as "Do not Disturb: forever", while allowing calls to still ring. Since people don't call me unless it's something urgentish, it works well, and notifications never distract me when I'm with others any more.

I do the same, and in addition the phone sits face down on my desk, to prevent me getting distracted by the notification led.
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