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Dandv

Joined 4 January 2005

About

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Hi 👋! I'm Dan Dascalescu, a former software engineer at Google, and the co-founder of Blueseed, the startup ship for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley's international waters. Previously, I founded the Quantified Self Forum, worked in software localization at Yahoo! and in satellite communications in Belgium. I have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Galați, Romania.

Interests: slow travel, transhumanism, social psychology, life extension, fitness, improv comedy, self-improvement and the Quantified Self movement, emerging technologies (nano-bio-info-cogno), entrepreneurship, philosophy (ethics, atheism), critical thinking, behavioral economics, web development, open source software development, seasteading, digital rights, knowledge management, film, literature (mostly non-fiction), public speaking (Toastmasters), market research, humor, photography, travel, writing, debate, thought experiments, rock climbing, cooking (or avoiding it). Occasionally: camping, hiking, swimming, skiing, rafting, sky diving, ziplining, spelunking.

More on my personal wiki.

Communication

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You can also e-mail me privately.

Contributions to Wikipedia

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  This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 22 days.

I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2005. I started with correcting typos and fighting spam and vandalism, then I gradually moved to researching references, creating sections and new articles. Here is the list of my contributions.

Wikipedia articles I created

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Wikipedia article sections

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This is a list of some article sections I created, so I can easily keep an eye on the activity of zealous deletionists.

Wikipedia categories

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Wikipedia proposals

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Core stance

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 This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter.
ANAL 4This user advocates good grammar usage.
USThis user uses American English.
00:00This user uses 24-hour time.
 This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.
 This user loves knowledge.
 This user loathes, but is forced to observe, daylight saving time.
2024-11-25This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates.
 This user took the red pill, not the blue pill.
AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.
10This user realizes that there are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who do not.
?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.
  This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.
  This user believes in the separation of religion and state.*  
 This user is a skeptic.

User:S.dedalus/Richard Dawkins (God)

Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
  God made this user an atheist. Do you question his wisdom?
"…"!
US vs. UK		This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue!
Speliŋ RəfɔrmThis user thinks spelling should be phonetic, and uses or has created a writing system for this purpose.

Intellectual profile

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 This user is interested in nanotechnology.
XDThis user is interested in comedy, and may enjoy writing or performing it.
 This user enjoys writing.
 This user enjoys optical illusions, especially the impossible constructions of M.C. Escher.


 This user enjoys photography.
fan-2 This user will watch Seinfeld at every opportunity.
fan-2 This user will watch The Outer Limits at every opportunity.
FrThis user is a fan of F•R•I•E•N•D•S
 This user finds TV mind numbing and doesn't want to watch it.
  This user has just crossed into...
The Twilight Zone.
  This user is fascinated by chaos theory.
 This user reads self-help books.

Literature

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 This user loves to read.
 This user is a fan of Dune.
 This user's hero is Isaac Asimov.
This user's personal hero is Carl Sagan.
 This user knows who the true Father of Science Fiction is.

Professional qualifications and memberships

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 This user is a software engineer.
MThis user is a member of Mensa.
ACADEMIC JOURNALThis user has had his/her work published in an academic journal.
BCISThis user has a Bachelor of Computer and Information Science degree.
OSrcThis user contributes to Open Source projects.

Political views

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  This user supports recycling.
 This user supports public transit.
 This user is highly against nazism.
 This user is against DRM.
PC This user is pro-choice.
 This user supports
renewable energy.
  This user finds censorship offensive.
  This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.
 This user participated in the
Earth Hour event.
 This user is straight
but not narrow.		 
 
 This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share.
    This user supports both straight and gay marriages, and is against any restrictions on who can marry.

Software

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Perl-4This user is an expert Perl programmer.
re-4This user writes expert regular expressions.
postgresThis user writes programs that access PostgreSQL.
HTML-4This user is an expert HTML user.
js-4This user is an expert JavaScript programmer.
css-4This user is an expert Cascading Style Sheets user.
XML-3This user is an advanced XML coder.
PHP-3This user is an advanced PHP programmer.
  This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
 This user contributes using Opera.
C-NThis user has written C compilers, or tweaked C runtime libraries in Assembly language.
 
This user uses Gmail as a primary email service.
 This user uses Pidgin to chat on multiple instant messaging networks.
FoobarThis user uses foobar2000.
 This user contributes while using VLC media player.
  This user uses Google Maps.
 This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
 This user once used DOS back in the day.
/.This user has a Slashdot account.
W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.
No iPod This user does not use an iPod and does not wish to own one..
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 This user contributes using Ubuntu.
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This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

 
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
 This user is a participant in WikiProject Ships.
 This user contributes to OpenStreetMap.

Me elsewhere

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This user maintains a blog at Dan Dascalescu's blog.
This user keeps delicious weblinks as dandvd.
 This user has a channel on YouTube.
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