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Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by blitzar »

roudaki wrote: post #40
blitzar wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was born and raised in a rich area. It is unfair that I can not get a 12 bedroom detached house on the upper west side of New York, where I was born and raised for $50,000. I demand someone gives it to me.

People always push the argument into extreme but for practical example you have housing around industrial zones going 250% up and being turned into gated communities and factories cant move because of nearby high way and harbor. So it is not socialism but common sense to call for residency zoning area reserved for workers. In tourist zones this is normal: from Alps to Mediterranean. But if you mention big cities sudd…

I do not believe my desire, having been born in a $5million house, and wanting to also live in an equivalent house is at all extreme. It is no differnt to being born in the bronx and wanting to live in the bronx or the projects and feeling entitled to also be given project housing.

> If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging

I was able to buy a ps4 on release for $399.99. How is it fair that they want $499 for a ps5. Is this really equivalent?

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by codingdave »

Where do you normally live?

I'm totally speculating based on my years living at high altitude, but if you also mostly reside at a higher altitude, you are acclimated to less oxygen, which could decrease your rate when you change to a location with more. If that were the reason, you could expect to see your RHR go back up to "normal" after a few weeks at sea level.

Or it could be something completely unrelated, I just didn't see this in your list of possible causes.

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by _9omd »

Honesty, it's probably everything you listed. Also, if you were on vacation, reduced stress, sun exposure, movement, etc. would contribute too.

I looked into the negative ion thing a few years ago, and there does appear to be something to it. It seems it can have a positive impact on the lungs, which actually handle more than just breathing. Serotonin is inactivated in the lungs, so in theory negative ions could help reduce circulating serotonin, which could have a mood boosting effect. This is of course if you buy into the argument that serotonin is not so much the happy chemical but the chemical of stress [1].

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/serotonin-depression-a...

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by alx__ »

deathanatos wrote: post #14
brezelgoring wrote: post #12

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>Would 100% move to Hawaii in the future I wish you best of luck in chasing your dream but I feel compelled to tell you that the word is that in non-tourist areas there is some pretty heavy racism going on against non-islanders. It is based on them (you) driving up property prices and basic goods availability. Maybe you already knew but still.

> It is based on them (you) driving up property prices and basic goods availability. Sounds like where I am now. Near as I can tell, nobody wants my generation to settle anywhere , because we "drive up" property prices. Like we want to pay $1M for a home, or had any hand in the local zoning idiocracy.

The folks driving up property prices are the speculators/flippers/airbnb buyers. Nothing wrong with moving into a space if you're going to live there full time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by machinelearning »

The probability of finding prey animals is low near a beach. This is bad if you’re a predator and need to find food. However it is also good if you want to sleep because the probability of being found by a predator is low.

There are several other things that make a beach inconvenient for hunting, e.g. large open spaces which compromise stalking behaviors, sand/water slows you down, tall skinny palm trees equipped with coconuts that serve as projectiles which land predators can’t climb but primates can.

I would imagine that there’s a similar explanation related to ease of hunting that could explain why rain sounds are calming.

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by spurgu »

stavros wrote: post #31
blitzar wrote: post #29

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> That makes it sound like you're forced to spend 1M on a home No they are 'forced' to buy a home. The home that fulfills their needs is 1M. If they could find a home that fulfilled their needs for $5 and 10c they would spend $5.10 on their home. The 'poor' person who sold their house to them in the poor area for $1mil ('where back in my day a house cost nothing') now has $1mil. The 'rich' person has a mortgage.

The poor person didn't have a house to sell. Poor people don't have assets. This discussion feels like talking to people from another reality. I live in a country where $900/mo is considered a good salary. New 120 m^2 flats in my city now cost $600k because people from abroad have come in, bought stuff and raised prices. What are regular people here, who have no "houses to sell", supposed to do? Move away from the pl…

Yeah, the same thing has happened in Malta.

Re: Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?

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Post by deathanatos »

blitzar wrote: post #33
stavros wrote: post #26

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No, that's perfectly sensible. Unless you were born in a poor area, I guess, in which case fuck you, you don't get to choose where to live OR buy a house there because all the rich people from out of town are driving you out of your own city. But that's fine, poor people shouldn't be alive anyway.

I was born and raised in a rich area. It is unfair that I can not get a 12 bedroom detached house on the upper west side of New York, where I was born and raised for $50,000. I demand someone gives it to me.

My childhood home, for example, was $60k when my parents bought it. It's over $600k now, appreciating at over 7% per year, well in excess of inflation.

There is a difference between my lament for a $1M on the outskirts of a city that has maybe 3 bed being cheaper, and wishing for a 12 bed for $50k in literal Manhattan.

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