> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]
This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.
Japan is probably not the best choice if your goal is a second or third passport, as others mentioned above. Countries outside East Asia, especially in Europe, tend to be more lenient about granting citizenship through naturalization, and many have friendlier tax systems (i.e., unlike the U.S., they don’t tax citizens who live abroad)
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]
This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ty. this is genuine repsponse unlike jackasses downvoting without any good explanations.
What's up with all these, "you can't ask that" in HN now?
No problem! Ya, I’m on the same page, genuine questions deserve genuine answers. Glad I could provide one this time!
1. Nerds like Japan.
2. People with money like acquiring passports.
3. This community has above average representation of both.
If you like acquiring passports, then I'm not sure if you want to go for the Japanese one, since you have to give up your previous citizenship afaik.
The fact that multiple replies to my post know this fact only serves to prove my point though. :)
You could’ve stopped at 1.
Good reply unlike some who downvotes without good explanations.
> People with money like acquiring passports.
Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship, so not very attractive for people who want more than one passport.
Japan is probably not the best choice if your goal is a second or third passport, as others mentioned above. Countries outside East Asia, especially in Europe, tend to be more lenient about granting citizenship through naturalization, and many have friendlier tax systems (i.e., unlike the U.S., they don’t tax citizens who live abroad)
The study of arcane procedures and immigration of all sorts comes up here very often.
I upvoted it because I found it interesting. That is all.
It's interesting. That's it. That's the only criteria.
I knew Japan made it difficult. I clicked, I read the whole thing. Now I know Japan makes it (nearly) impossible.
I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not but to be fair HN is full of similar exaggerated instances "I migrated my backend to COBOL because it was faster" (it's really not btw)
I agree, it’s so off topic.
What topic?
AI of course!