surfTide
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Mea Culpa - not my intention :)
I guess the victory/peace sign would also be a bad example (and that amongst english speakers).
Comment · 4 years ago
Think of emojis as Egyptian hieroglyphs - we've been there, done that.
On the other hand, emoji are far more international - everyone knows what a thumbsup means ....
Comment · 4 years ago
> [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017]
Comment · 4 years ago
Original submission: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020
> [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017]
Shouldn't this be "(2017)" - original article was submitted in 2017.
Either way, my favourite answer was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231627
"It helps to bear in mind that about 99.9999% of the worlds population have no awareness of your existence."
That helped me.
I then created a domain based on that comment[1] and then decided to create an alter ego[2] who will be my internet persona for the various projects I've been doing for the last couple of years.
I guess that gave me a bit of a purpose.
[1]=https://99.99999.fyi/ [2]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/