This observation is not about acorns or lost-and-founds, and I suffer from an inability to put into words what it *is* about, and I suspect that if I had words they would be viewed with extreme displeasure by people who didn’t have their acorns returned when they were kids.
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An anecdote for you: My last encounter with police in Japan was walking approximately a mile to the station to drop off a Swiss Army knife abandoned in a park where children play. I was advised to call them next time so that they could come pick it up.
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I have also been involved with approximately ten non-custodial interrogations with various police departments for e.g. looking suspiciously non-Japanese when riding a bicycle of unknown provenance, but even given that, had a sufficient model of cops as functioning to involve them
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Does stripe operate in japan? How do you handle work living there
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Yes! We have an office in Harajuku (a neighborhood in Tokyo) and actively serve the Japanese market.
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Do you think it is possible to make such places anew elsewhere, with some amount of these parts?
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It’s clearly possible to create high-trust communities with extremely aligned values in microscale, but they’re so rare in some places as to be considered suspicious for existing and probably a threat to society.
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I once brought some important-seeming keys (including car keys) I found to the police department in North Beach, San Francisco, and they looked at me like I was crazy.
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Ditto, but for the entire contents of someone's wallet (minus cash), dumped in the middle of the street. SFPD: "so what do you want me to do with it?"
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Wow. Think this is what happens where people are principle driven instead of outcome driven.
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Being principle driven leads to good outcomes.
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