> 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

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.

1. Nerds like Japan.

2. People with money like acquiring passports.

3. This community has above average representation of both.

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)_/¯

I agree, it’s so off topic.

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)