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mahdavi | 5 years ago | on: Spring-powered wheel claims to be ‘E-bike alternative at lower cost’

Apparently the designer of this bike has no knowledge of physics.

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: HTML6 Concept

<html:html> Seriously?

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?

I hope we ditch JS from web standards.

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: How to Figure Out Your Competitors’ Revenues in About 70 Seconds (2013)

70 seconds for a multiplication?

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: What was your best passive income in 2014?

Selling 3d assets on Turbosquid.

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why would you disable JavaScript?

Because it's prone to bad coding and makes my browser crash. Even sites made by giants like google and facebook crash because of bad JS code.

Because web experience has become shitty ever since excessive usage of JS. I'm sick of pages that download megabytes of JS libraries just to animate a button hover. Thanks to CSS3, Now we can do all the needed UX/UI stuff without JS. Make the web better by not using JS.

mahdavi | 11 years ago | on: The correct abbreviation for Firefox is ‘Fx’, not ‘FF’

Searching "FX" on Google brings nothing related to Firefox, not a single link, but "FF" brings Firefox download page. Sorry but I'm going to stick with FF.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain

it won't solve the problem, the joker can simply inject a string that becomes a virus signature after XOR.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background

There are tons of prior art out there to invalidate this stupid patent. Wondering what lawyers at Amazon where thinking when they filed for this patent.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving

The good thing about computers is that they can simulate the future based on current physical data and make decisions in realtime, so if a cyclist fells off on front of it, computer can detect the diversion as it happens, simulate each possible scenario beforehand, and choose the one that has the best outcome. actually it can perform a lot better than humans. look at this unbeatable rock-paper-scissors robot video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxjjztQKtY

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: 4ee89f7cf824a85ad5f11d52604ffdebe9f01302bcea8ddec0af450f9185ddf1

One thing I like about Bitcoin is that it's stories are more exciting than any movie or video game.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria

they can use Bitcoin

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria

Very very common, I can say +90% of students already use them in our university. others universities may not be any different.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics

If the gold price collapses, all the energy spent mining it and transporting it will be gone too. and that energy is much much higher than the energy bitcoin network is consuming.

mahdavi | 12 years ago | on: Web GL Ocean Simulation

looks cool, but it's really slow.