#Switzerland rejects the 10-million population cap referendum! 55% voted no, 45% voted yes, with 59% turnout (48% being average turnout.) #news
on 02026-06-14#Switzerland has a ballot initiative to cap the country’s population at 10 million.
on 02026-06-12#video of 01970s analog tank simulator in #Switzerland, now open to tourists in the “Swiss Military Museum, about an hour north of Zurich”. They had to rebuild the computerized part of the model on a Raspberry Pi!
on 02025-09-18#Mercosur signs a free trade agreement with #Iceland, #Norway, #Liechtenstein, and #Switzerland! #news #politics
on 02025-09-16#ElectroBOOM #video on #Switzerland, including Montreux, Lausanne, Vevey, Geneva, and finally Annecy and Lyon in France, with lots of pretty tourism footage
on 02025-03-25#news #video nine months ago from #Deutsche-Welle on #solar #manufacturing in #Europe, for example by #Switzerland company #Meyer-Burger in #Germany, which is opening a new factory in #Colorado-Springs, #USA. Credits national #China policy prioritizing #polysilicon production in the early 02000s. Lots of talking-head filler by Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at #Ember. Says #Brazil is “leading the renewable #energy boom taking place across the continent”, but apparently is trying #import-substitution with tariffs, and #ABSOLAR isn’t convinced local producers are enough. Says #Trump plans to cut Biden’s US subsidies. “Today, solar-powered energy is the cheapest form of electricity for the majority of the countries that use it. (...) Estimates put the cost somewhere between 300 and 900 dollars per kilowatt by 2030.” I guess when they made this video the mainstream solar module price was €0.14/Wp, and now it’s 29% lower at €0.10/Wp (US$106/kWp). Panasonic and LG recently exited the market. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-27#Switzerland requiring all new government software to be open source by #SJVN: “Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfillment of Government Tasks” (EMBAG) (...) requires all public bodies to disclose the source code of software developed by or for them unless third-party rights or security concerns prevent it. (...) In addition to mandating OSS, the EMBAG also requires the release of non-personal and non-security-sensitive government data as Open Government Data (OGD).” Passed in 02023. #history
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst on #Switzerland requiring all new government software to be open source
on 02024-07-28The #history of goiter in #Switzerland
on 02023-12-28Craig Murray seeks protection in #Switzerland for political prosecution as a terrorist. #UK #politics
on 02023-11-01the Bernoullis emigrated from Antwerp to Frankfurt in 1570, later Basel in 1620, to escape the Spanish persecution of the Protestants. #history #math #Switzerland
on 02021-01-20origins of #democracy in #Europe #history include a peasant revolt in #Switzerland against heavy taxation by (somewhat democratic) cities
on 02021-01-20