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Surprised to see a reddit like question being asked here on hackernews.

Water, soap, oil, compressed air etc will not work. Ask your friend to gently tap around the edges of the container that is stuck with either a wooden spatula or the back of a wooden ladle. Gentle taps in the direction of getting unstuck all around the edge of the stuck container. May require few minutes of tapping.

Source: This has happened to me many times.

Aha! An open trap in broad daylight on the front page of HN. Pond.. Pondering.. Ponderer.. Plop!

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Asking the right questions

There are 2 kinds of ambitious (and famous) people I've met: those with and those without humility. Those with humility don't desire or even try to be ambitious (or famous). For them, ambition & fame are (perhaps undesired) side effects of other primary qualities like relentlessness & perseverance. The other kind are aware of ambition/fame, actively pursue it and openly flaunt their love for it. Those that are in this group also are more likely to be huge assholes.

Both paths may lead you to big things. The question to ask yourself is what other traits do you want to be known for. Lots of founders are assholes (steve jobs?) but you don't have to be an asshole to be a founder. My advice would be to not pursue ambition. Just go find what you love working on so much that it makes you forget who you are. Also, I know you didn't ask about fame but awareness and active pursuit of fame & ambition kinda goes hand in hand.

You can't hack flow. You definitely cannot aim for mindfulness. All these are classic cart-before-the-horse conditions. Such flawed notions may sell books, but they don't resolve inner conflicts.

There's a paradox at the heart of this that is difficult to grasp but is true nonetheless.

Joshu asked Nansen: What is the path?

Nansen replied: Your everyday mind is the path.

Joshu: How does one attain it?

Nansen: When you try to attain you fail.

Sounds nice and perhaps this was true at some point but it isn't true anymore(for no particular fault of YC).

They are growing, and with an increase in size they have to have significant dissonance within the team - it's only natural.

Maybe a few of the older guns at YC still like to think that they continue to be the place where a hypothesis is evaluated purely for its potential but its not - which is sad because the world now desperately needs what YC once was.

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This looks fantastic.

The only possible hindrance I can think of is that if you build something on .net but someone else manages to score the .com for that name then you may have future troubles.

But since your company owns the both versions then that stands settled.

Just out of curiosity, won't users be confused if you have 2 products for different fields sharing same names one on .com and another on .net?

Nice project! I remember a while back, someone made something like this for HN too.

It's funny how you think you may have an idea (opinion) about a community you so often visit, but when aggregate data like this emerges, you are surprised at the dissonance.

Gotta keep updating those priors :)

Wish you the best OP.

I remember watching the previous video and feeling like I couldn't completely understand his explanation. In this video I think I get it. The lever analogy and the part with the wooden board and wheels was a nice touch.

I know many here look down upon YouTube for science videos but hey someone has to do the stupid job of trying to make it simple for the masses and some channels like this are really good at doing that.

How a large part of succeeding at something is just showing up or being there. The 1979 film with the same name can be analyzed for its various profundities. For me now, a loose consistency with a sort of detachment to outcomes is one of them.