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 <blockquote>Of course, the closest you can get is having the activity available in your own living space, but as unused home treadmills and exercise bikes demonstrate, this has its pitfalls. There could be something about a thing always being available that means there’s never any urgency.</blockquote>There seems to be a minimum at which hyperbolic discounting stops working because things are too easy to access