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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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-5 This user can contribute at a professional level of American English .
ro Acest utilizator este un vorbitor nativ al limbii române .
es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español .
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français .
This user is a translator from {{{1}}} to English on Wikipedia:Translation.
...-0 This user would not like to know any more languages.
their
there
they're This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!
its
it's It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
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You can also e-mail me privately.

Contributions to Wikipedia

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Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 21years, 7months and 10days.

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 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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I am a member of the Atheism WikiProject. WikiProject Atheism is an attempt to improve, grow and organize Wikipedia's articles related to atheism. We need all your help, so feel free to join us.
This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter.
ANAL 4 This user advocates good grammar usage.
US This user uses American English .
00:00 This 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 .
2026年08月13日 This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates.
Matrix This user took the red pill, not the blue pill.
AIM-Able This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.
10 This 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 ?
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(削除) US vs. UK (削除ここまで) This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue!
Speliŋ Rəfɔrm This 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 .
XD This 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.
Fr This 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 .
M This user is a member of Mensa .
ACADEMIC JOURNAL This user has had his/her work published in an academic journal .
BCIS This user has a Bachelor of Computer and Information Science degree.
OSrc This user contributes to Open Source projects.

Political views

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This user supports recycling .
This user supports public transit .
This user is 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-4 This user is an expert Perl programmer.
re-4 This user writes expert regular expressions .
This user writes programs that access PostgreSQL .
HTML-4 This user is an expert HTML user.
js-4 This user is an expert JavaScript programmer.
CSS-4 This user is an expert Cascading Style Sheets user.
XML-3 This user is an advanced XML coder.
PHP-3 This user is an advanced PHP programmer.
Firefox This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox .
This user contributes using Opera .
C-N This user has written C compilers, or tweaked C runtime libraries in Assembly language.
This user uses Gmail as a primary email service.
Pidgin This user uses Pidgin to chat on multiple instant messaging networks.
Foobar This 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.
W3C This user promotes full compliance with World Wide Web Consortium standards.
No iPod This user does not use an iPod and does not wish to own one..
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Ubuntu logo. 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.

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incl This 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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