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RichardKennaway comments on Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: taryneast 06 January 2015 10:11AM

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Comment author: knb 09 January 2015 12:00:52AM 2 points [-]

I recommend a white noise machine. I'm sensitive to noise and live in an apartment with a fair amount of noise coming through from other places. Running a fan helped a lot, but the air was annoying at times too. You can get white noise machines for like 20 dollars, although I can't vouch for quality. Mine cost ~$60.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 12 January 2015 11:05:55AM 1 point [-]

Here's a free source of a few different flavours of noise. There's also a phone app for a small cost.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 January 2015 01:41:18PM 3 points [-]

A remarkably good source of water sounds.

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterfallNoiseGenerator.php

Comment author: taryneast 12 January 2015 10:57:35PM 1 point [-]

That's a great link - I've just had a bit of aplay with it. It plays the sound in-browser, with great controls over the sounds. plus it has a bunch of other sounds too - rain, waves etc... and you can buy the albums. I'm thinking of downloading the pink-noise version for my go-to-sleep sounds... it's much better than the sloshy-water noises that come as standard with my alarm.