If that's what they want, that's what a good conversationalist delivers. If you have an agenda, it's a meeting not a conversation.

Then those ideas are very low value.

Great ideas are the ones that make you stop listening/reading and compel action.

Doing is much much more valuable than knowing once there stops being a quiz next week.

Good luck.

In part, Japan has good geography for passenger rail. Most of the population lives near sea level and therefore a lot can be done without significant grades, and because the island is long and skinny, even the highest point in the network is less than 5000' and there's just one mountain range to cross.

And of course population density.

In business, selling is much much much more important than making because if you have money you can hire technical workers. But nobody will care nearly as much about survival as you.

And if you have a technical background you are much more likely to have technical people in your network. Good luck.

HN is HN because its endless September prevents ossification.

There are two simple tools to deal with problematic behavior: downvotes and flags. There’s also the almost simple tool of emailing the moderation team…oh and there’s also hiding stories and collapsing comments.

It might not feel worth doing any of those things, but that’s how proof of work works. Good luck.