The 7-11 in Japan. The onigiri was better than some of the ones I’ve had in Japanese-owned and operated markets in New York. I also adore Japanese candies, but thankfully those are packaged and I can find them here :) Now, if I could only find where to get those gift box treats that they sell all over the train…

I've never been much of a TV watcher so I can't say how other countries differ on the commercial side of things, but holy shit is physical advertising in Asia is intense. At least in Korea, Singapore, and Japan... I moved to NY from Singapore a two months ago and the relative lack of posters, flashy signs (Singapore…

In my very anecdotal experience, internet in Singapore were not that great (it’s not in the top 10 for avg. speeds, but is #2 for peak speeds). Idk if it’s because Singapore monitors/censors the crap out of the internet, or that the National University of Singapore and all public/cafe internet has some hardcore…

Eh, it's not everyone in the west. It's more like Americans and Brits are stuck using the imperial system (more so in the US than in the UK). I believe (not sure) Canadian road signs are both in kilometers and miles, but the latter is for Americans traveling within Canada. The rest of the west uses the metric system,…

That's fantastic. I'm glad that your dad had a spectacular recovery and is among those who were lucky enough to go into spontaneous remission. Hope he has many long, healthy years ahead of him.

You sure the smell isn't from dead skunks? They smell just like weed on the freeway.

I'm not sure how strongly they enforce food-related health codes in Korea considering I got horrible food poisoning from eating some things just a few blocks away. Or the lack of enforcement may be true in most parts of East and Southeast Asia - I was constantly sick to my stomach in Singapore and they're extremely…

I went to this sheep cafe in Seoul this past December and it was quite clean. There's a pen right outside the cafe and they kept the two sheep there for the most part.

I can't recall what I wanted to be when I was a small child, but in middle and high school I wanted to be an biological anthropologist, biochemist, geneticist, graphic designer + artist, airplane pilot, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. I think I may have thought of being a mathematician at some…

Nope! Runs in O(n^2). I believe you can get it to run in O(n log n) with a certain implementation. Completely deterministic :)

Hear, hear! Thank you. I really don't understand all this super-intelligent AI talk and why it's so frequent. How many legitimate computer scientists think this is remotely possible within the next few decades? I have only ever found articles, papers, interviews, etc by Hawking, Musk, that one dude who made that…

Yeah... As I said, those two buildings were completed three years ago. It's definitely someone skirting regulations, but it def. still happens unfortunately :/

But the elevator does fall in real life :( My parents in a 50-story high rise built in 2011 and due to constant power outages, the three elevators were whacked out. My mom got caught in it twice, once where it fell 2 floors and the other 5 floors. There was drop of 20 floors apparently... Now I don't ever want to get…

I don't know if mega-cities are preferable to a more spread out population, but if I remember correctly, dense cities which grow vertically rather than horizontally (ie. NYC vs LA) tend to be more environmentally friendly, at least in theory.

You live in California and have only felt one? o_o" I recall sitting at the LA airport and feeling a really tiny shake and people were flipping out...

Best of luck of the drug trials. I hope it shows to be beneficial and without many risks.

The HPV vaccine is not to prevent 12 year-old girls getting cervical cancer from having sex at the age of 12. It's to prevent them from getting cervical cancer later in life. The reason they recommend getting the vaccine at a young age is that they want to vaccinate BEFORE they become sexually active and have the…

The autonomous trains do work well. I'm always wondering whether or not the trains have staff member on board though, because I haven't seen any and I think it'd be good in case of emergency. Idk though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chocolate tends to be grown in places where there's a lot of rainfall tough (aka tropical places), not California :) Water is probably not *too* great of a concern there~

Oh I see! That's pretty rad.