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Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by dylan604 »

Gigachad wrote: post #25
drstewart wrote: post #2

This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don't seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I've moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn't apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc…

I wish we would take car caused health impacts as serious as we did covid. We have a never ending stream of research and yet no one cares. We can’t even take action against modded motorbikes and cars which damage peoples health for zero functional gain.

I wish we'd turn into something positve the data learned when the world shut down for a few weeks in 2020 to see how clear the air got, how quiet the neighborhoods got, how still the ground got all from the massive amounts of cars not being used.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by causality0 »

kfarr wrote: post #17
sammalloy wrote: post #10

> road noise during the day My understanding is that the vast majority of road noise is caused by vehicles outfitted with non-standard tires. Where I live, 90% of the road noise is caused by lifted trucks using massive off-road tires on local roads and highways. It isn’t clear if this against the law all over the country, but in various US states, the police will issue tickets. There are several employees of local bu…

Yes, and same with modified exhaust systems and mufflers.

As well as motorcycles and noisy diesel trucks.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by lom »

tayo42 wrote: post #27
shados wrote: post #16

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Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do. They'll say it's just something that's notmaly and anyone trying to change it should move. Most source of noise pollution wouldnt be that hard to fix. Society just doesn't want to.

I had this "conversation" with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn't be so angry? I guess this study supports that. The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the…

I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor.

Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it is (relatively anyways), even with greater density and size.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by nicolas_t »

Buttons840 wrote: post #13
ggm wrote: post #4

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When earbuds came on the market, Audiologists said "this is going to be a disaster in 20 years time" and guess what: tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss levels are through the roof. I think its to one side of your concern, but related: we truly don't socialize the needed guarding of our eardrums. It's a vicious cycle: unexpected mechanical noises stop us sleeping, leads to weight gain, diabetes, heart problems,…

*/5 * * * * osascript -e 'set volume output volume (output volume of (get volume settings))-1' Speaking of tinnitus, and since this is Hacker News: I've entered the above in crontab (crontab -e) on my mac. It lowers the volume a small amount every 5 minutes. I have to press the volume up button once every 30 minutes to keep a roughly equal volume level. This prevents me from accidentally listening to something that i…

Thanks for this. Really great idea! I normally don't set my headphones that loud but it's happened that I raised the volume during a meeting because someone was talking too quietly and forgot to lower it.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by dylan604 »

Buttons840 wrote: post #13
ggm wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When earbuds came on the market, Audiologists said "this is going to be a disaster in 20 years time" and guess what: tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss levels are through the roof. I think its to one side of your concern, but related: we truly don't socialize the needed guarding of our eardrums. It's a vicious cycle: unexpected mechanical noises stop us sleeping, leads to weight gain, diabetes, heart problems,…

*/5 * * * * osascript -e 'set volume output volume (output volume of (get volume settings))-1' Speaking of tinnitus, and since this is Hacker News: I've entered the above in crontab (crontab -e) on my mac. It lowers the volume a small amount every 5 minutes. I have to press the volume up button once every 30 minutes to keep a roughly equal volume level. This prevents me from accidentally listening to something that i…

seems like it'd be better served to have some sort of limit on how loud the volume on a device can be set. maybe in the system preferences set MAX = 75%, but in Finder allow the volume to be set at 100% in the UI but the system keeping it limited. make this a per Output setting so when you switch back to Built-in or other external device it is not limited to anything but your buds.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by jeffbee »

gotaquestion wrote: post #39
mguerville wrote: post #22

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Agreed, i can’t believe you can get ticketed for a broken taillight but someone can ride a Harley and disrupt hundreds of people anyone, basically anyone within a 50 meter radius, in total impunity.

Maybe because lots of cops like Harley's with straight pipes, or are sympathetic? But they'll certainly ticket bassy low-riders.

Yup. Cops are just a gang, chapter 47: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Oakland-PD-s-Harleys...

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by Zircom »

eliseumds wrote: post #30
nanidin wrote: post #20

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Earplugs gave you tinnitus? Do you mean earbuds? Earplugs are typically hearing PPE.

I've done pretty much everything I could imagine to try to identify the root cause, no doctor could give a reasonable diagnosis. My tinnitus started after a night with earplugs, but it could have been a coincidence since I also used noise-cancelled Sony headphones. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not to be rude but you ascribing an equal likelihood of causing tinnitus to one night of using earplugs(which BLOCK sound from your ears) vs presumably regular/sustained use of noise cancelling headphones(which BLAST sound into your ears) borders on ridiculousness and make me think you're just trolling..
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