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Your point regarding regulation is quite pertinent. How do you refute the idea that strict regulation will create a non-navigable mess?

Kafkaesque is indeed the right term. I wonder if Governments can be 'optimized' by combing out complexity the way an organization can.

To other HN readers, what recourse do the people in the article have?

I agree. Many people, especially men like me take a spartan view of this path of self-improvement. The person in question is in denial. Gently assuaging their fears with a slightly inaccurate, yet healthier view of things is more beneficial. When your demons are plain to see like alcoholism, you can frame progress constructively as an upward struggle against it. When your demons are lurking beneath the surface, they cannot be fought upfront. The observer might want to take them 'downstairs' to address the demons, but the affected person themselves might feel like the ground under them is crumbling while they have a noose around their necks.

I'm surprised you didn't shoehorn Tatsuro Yamashita in despite your username, haha.

Wonderful. As I approach the end of my college years, I rue the fact that I didn't put myself 'out there' early enough. What kind of people you have around you might be the most important thing for young adults today.

How are the CEO's actions not illegal? Renting your own spaces to your own company, cashing out before IPO, loaning yourself company money - none of this is illegal??

It's weird. Going for a walk doesn't make ideas pop up in my mind. Nor does sitting still on a couch bring up ideas. But sitting in the static toilet environment does.

Were auto-antonyms meant to have opposing meanings based on the context? Or do they become that way when people assume the meaning incorrectly?

For example, nonplussed originally means to be surprised. But a layman would think that to be 'plussed' must be to be surprised and nonplussed must be the opposite of that. Is this how auto-antonyms come to be?

For someone with a standard CS undergraduate education, how much effort (in hrs/week) would such an endeavour require?

This might sound alarmist, but do you think China is the biggest upcoming global problem after climate change? For two reasons:

1. China has a totalitarian ruling system. They intend to realize George Orwell's 1984.

2. Present-day China essentially has no ethics. Take the US in comparison. No matter how perverse the people in power become and even if they do messed up things, the US has some founding morals and principles they do not forget. China, in comparison, systematically rooted out these values since the Great Leap Forward. The happenings at Hong Kong and Xinjiang epitomize that.

I do think China's expansionist policy bodes poorly for all of humanity.

> but without such weights, anyone can say anything about anything no matter what the education or perspective, and have it essentially equivalent to a subject matter in the field, at least until further examination.

We began with institutions whose voices were the authority, period. With the internet, anyone could spread their own ideas and thoughts thereby decentralizing the power. We have now accepted the presence of fake news and voices with vested interests. Is the pendulum swinging back to the established individuals/institutions in response to this?