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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Grateful For? on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:42PM (#33736006)
A way to explain the activity to a child could be: "Mention three good things that happened today". There are no rules, you can mention anything that you consider to be good. Do it every day.

I didn't come up with this and obviously cannot say if it would work for you. Look up "Three Good Things" if you're curious about the theory.

Do you drink a lot of coffee? A couple of years ago I made a small experiment and cut out coffee completely for at couple of weeks and I noticed two positive things. One is toilet oriented and the other was that I found it significantly easier to fall asleep.

I've also sometimes tried something I read in a blog a long time ago. I think they said it was what the Marines did but I have no idea if it's true. I'll imagine I'm lying in a canoe on an almost still lake with a crystal clear sky. Focus really hard on imagining the clear blue sky and then start imagining the gentle rocking of the canoe by the lake. Keep focus on just those two things.

Zero science, pure anecdotal, so take it for what you will :)

Re:The age-old strategy of buying cheap shares is faltering on Saturday September 19, 2020 @02:26AM (#24525597)
I have only recently started reading about investment and the concept of value investing and your comment doesn't seem to encapsulate what I've understood.

There are also things like the company's management and how they run the company. It's about looking for "wonderful companies" at a good price.

I'm not saying which investment strategy is better or worse, just that I believe there is a lot more to Buffet's idea of value investment than you imply.

Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:13AM (#23415586)
I believe it's way too early to make conclusions about which approach would have been the best from a scientific/public health perspective.

The reason I think Sweden's approach is wrong is that other countries are much more hesitant to work with them now. An example being Denmark opening the borders to Norway and Germany but not Sweden.

Re:What I've learned sending proposals to conferences on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:24AM (#21877925)
> The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible.

I agree - mostly. I was at Visual Studio Live in Vegas a few years back and apart from Donovan Brown giving an absolutely mind-blowing presentation of Azure DevOps the quality of the sessions was so bad I felt it as an insult.

At Anglebrackets I've had better luck. I went earlier this year and saw a presentation on Blazor given by one of the devs on the team.

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Hashicorp perhaps? I was thinking it was named after one of the founders, Hashimoto.
You pick a name each that you want your children to carry.

Both my wife and I have two surnames, one from each of our parents. We have chosen one of those each and given to our children.

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:44PM (#17426142)
It might depend on where you live. I've been driving around Copenhagen with a group of colleagues and we had to ask the one with the map to switch to Google maps because Apple maps seemed determined to give us a city tour rather than lead us to our destination.