I generally trust Lifehacker for not recommending software that turn out to be malware

I work in a big international company and you can really see the differences in culture between countries: In some countries people are expected to hang around the office for 10+hours even if they have finished all their work for the day (eg. USA) while in some countries nobody really cares where you are as long as…

Thanks! That looks great! This is exactly what I wanted :)

Textures play a huge role in these photos. It would be nice to see the non-textured versions also. E.g. The tractor on the field: the field could have been completely flat with one good texture making it considerably less impressive. I see it has used more polygons, but a non-textured version of all these would be…

Isn't the blanket one on how to help if someone touches a live electric wire?

I wouldn't outlaw it. That would just be too extreme. Many countries don't have a tipping culture, but it is still not outlawed!

Wow - You have really shitty wages in America! The minimum wage for a waiter in Finland is 9.39€/hour (≈12.25USD/hour)

It doesn't have to be Apple.

I feel like the smart watches now are like smartphones before iOS and android.

I've decided to wait until the "iPhone" of smart watches is introduced.

I don't think that metals evaporate at room temperature so the metal in the water would just stay in the filter or in the bottle.

Tap water has 0.2-1mg/l of chlorine and the mean ambient air level is 1mg/m^3 so there could be a noticeable difference. I'm very doubtful that it would cause any noticeable changes in…

"The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment."<sup>[61]

It is benefitial to question the common assumptions of reality, because even in physics it can lead to interesting</sup>…

I see what you mean and some empirical evidence can be used. Somebody more familiar with the philosophies of science would have come up with better examples.

Are you saying that (1) 95% of lego sets are licensed and un-cheerful or that (2) 95% of licensed sets are un-cheerful action/adventure sets?

Hmm... I'm afraid I don't have any examples of the very extreme "perceived reality is not the reality". Reason for that of course being that it is almost impossible to conduct research from such extreme starting point. Perhaps only philosophical study can be done with that idea.

btw. some of the words I use might not be exactly the correct ones, since I did not study these things in English and it is not my first language (Finnish).

To clarify: I said that there is a possibility that reality is not real: "that is one of the reasons why nothing is never 100% sure".

Observation is not useless. I'm not claiming that.

It is very much useless in normal day to day activities, but as I said - that is one of the reasons why nothing is never 100% sure. It has some other implications as well, but not that important.

and still everything could just happen in your head. Making everything just figments of your own imagination. That is why 100% knowledge is NEVER possible.

What you are describing is a view held by "critical realism". It is one philosophy of perception. But there are other views also and it is not possible to determine which of those views is true.