philippK

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by philippK 14y ago
Rare ? To me - they are unheard of.
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by philippK 14y ago
There is also this project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/b9creations/b9creator-a-... they also seem to make an optical 3d printer and seem to have actually shipped some of them already.
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by philippK 14y ago
Yeah well this has been all over the primetime news shows on german television. They all aired with the warning to not use IE / switch to a different browswr. While this might not mean much to the average user of HN (read: tech literate) -
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by philippK 14y ago
ustream was showing an even higher number of 11.4m viewers
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by philippK 14y ago
german workers are more unionized than the US workers are. the workers movement was (sort of) co-inventended in germany in the 1920s ;-)
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by philippK 14y ago
I'm disappointed that they still don't seem to support the file API in JS :/
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by philippK 14y ago
Arguably. While it is true that the SPD has departed from its roots as a socialist working class party they can still be considered "leftwing". I don't want to go into too much detail here but Hannelore Kraft has run on a pretty leftwing pl
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by philippK 14y ago
This is pretty important for the pirate party. Nordrhrein Westphalen is not only the largest state by population. It is also very important politically and economically. The pirates entering the state parliament at 8% will greatly solidify
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by philippK 14y ago
where "liberal" in germany means something like "pro business". Very different from the US.
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by philippK 14y ago
Well it is certainly true that there are countries in europe that have even more renewable energy than we have. The other countries in europe that have more renewables than we have are mostly smaller countries that don't have the population
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by philippK 14y ago
Well that is a good question. The pirate party wants several steps in enabling more citizen participation. First, they want to make government more transparent so that the people actually have all the information needed to make informed dec
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by philippK 14y ago
You can even participate if you are not a party member. And that's what their long term vision also includes: Large scale, direct, participation (using digital means) of many people in the political process. They call this concept "Liqui
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by philippK 14y ago
well i have bad news for you. the only party in germany that is really pro free market capitalism, the FDP, is on its way to obscurity due to severe policy missteps. All the other parties embrace, as we call it here, "social capitalism" to
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by philippK 14y ago
Reading the entry - it isn't. It's basically the same thing. What is different in germany, though, is that the discussion here revolves around forcing private sector enterprises to have specific (government set) quota of women in their lead
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by philippK 14y ago
Absolutely. Entering a government after they first get into the parliament would do them no good. They first need to establish themselves, before they can govern.
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by philippK 14y ago
I think it's pretty unlikely that they fully get into all that "gender politics" stuff like the greens. That has several reasons - mainly the see themselves as more "liberal" (it has a different meaning here than in the us) than greens, and
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by philippK 14y ago
Update: You'll find the exact polling data here: http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/forsa.htm (FORSA institute, showing the most recent poll where they are ahead of the greens) http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm (overall overview
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by philippK 14y ago
I disagree that greens did not achieve much. They have completely changed the political discourse in germany. After 30 years of the greens being in the Bundestag, we now have the largest percentage of renewable energy in europe (>20% of
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by philippK 14y ago
I'm from germany, and have voted for the pirate party in recent local elections. I'd like to add a few things: 1. The german system of government is very much different from the US. In the US you have by-and-large a "winner takes it all" vo
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by philippK 14y ago
Arrington writes on his blog about this http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/ Basically, he is saying, the Pando folks were pissed because he is going to speak at the disrupt conference
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by philippK 14y ago
I'm from Saarland (the state where the vote was last night), and i voted for the pirate party last night. They are not an anti copyright group. It's true that they want to see modifications made to overly strict copyright laws and oppose tr
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by philippK 15y ago
There was an article posted here 1 day ago that explored to great lengths why SVG for scalable icons sounds good in theory - but does not work well in practice. And why icon fonts are the way to go for now. See here: http://www.pushing-pix