User:Dandv

About
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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Contributions to Wikipedia
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

 * Agoric (2021-Mar-05) - smart contracts company
 * Testnet (2021-Mar-04) - blockchain concept
 * Blockchain oracle (2021-Mar-04)
 * Steven Gundry (2017-May-10) - due to the hype around his Plant Paradox book.
 * Double Commander (2016-Aug-03) - revamped the page.
 * Restrictions on geographic data in China (2015-Apr-06) - because no Chinese GPS user bothered to clearly explain on Wikipedia the obscure but pervasive problem caused by GCJ-02
 * Tencent Maps (2015-Apr-05) - another Chinese map provider that shows everything in the world but China as unexplored #culturefail
 * Baidu Maps (2015-Apr-05) - Chinese map provider that shows everything in the world but China as unexplored, but has highly detailed SimCity-like pixel art renderings for major Chinese cities
 * Google barges (2013-Oct-30) - four mysterious barges, two of which had superstructures that some thought would be used as data centers or Google Glass
 * BAM Energy Group (2013-Jun-30) - company that installed the largest array of solar panels on a cruise ship. (mirror)
 * Michael Aytes (2013-May-15)
 * H-3 visa (2013-Mar-14)
 * Fuqi International (2012-Nov-18)
 * MELA Sciences (2012-Nov-17)
 * Medivation (2012-Nov-17)
 * Oceanic Six (resurrected 2012-Sep-15)
 * Seed accelerator (practically rewrote it from scratch on 2012-Sep-14)
 * Opus Casino (2012-Aug-28) - cruiseferry
 * Mirage I (2012-Aug-27) - cruiseferry
 * EB-2 visa (practically rewrote it from scratch on 2012-Aug-27)
 * EB-3 visa (2012-Aug-23)
 * Princess Daphne (2012-Apr-26)
 * International Shipping Partners
 * Quantified Self
 * Tradable sector
 * Darrel Ray
 * Protect IP Act
 * Knudsen force - funny how in 10 years, nothing of substance has been added
 * MojoMojo - in the meantime deleted by deletionists with nothing better to do
 * ZOC (software)
 * Axure RP
 * Customer Feedback Management services
 * Oscillator (technical_analysis)
 * Informed for LIFE

Wikipedia article sections
This is a list of some article sections I created, so I can easily keep an eye on the activity of zealous deletionists.
 * Louise Hay - 2022-Jan-28 (restored the Ideas and Teachings section of this deluded charlatan)
 * DTS_(sound_system) - 2017-Apr-12 because none of users of the multi-billion dollar wireless audio industry bothered to write about the open Play-Fi standard on Wikipedia (but of course, we have Sonos)
 * Killifish - 2016-Dec-13
 * Valsalva_maneuver - 2015-Jun-08
 * StackOverflow and Criticism - 2014-Feb-25; once again after it was removed
 * Slingshot (water vapor distillation system) - drastically reorganized and updated the article. The amazingly little interest that this breakthrough invention has received from Wikipedians is perfect evidence of Systemic bias. With cheap access to clean water goes lack of concern with small-scale low-cost water purification technology.
 * General Electric - Focus Forward - Short Films/Big Ideas - 2013-Jul-09
 * Silicon_Valley - 2013-Jul-07
 * Windows Movie Maker - 2013-Jul-06
 * Mike Gogulski - 2013-Jul-04
 * New York Mercantile Exchange - 2013-Jun-15
 * Hector Ruiz - 2013-May-11
 * Punta Mita - 2013-May-06
 * Chris Hadfield - 2013-Feb-24
 * GitHub - 2013-Feb-08 (since deleted)
 * Right of first refusal - 2012-Sep-29
 * EB-5 visa - 2012-Feb-08
 * NineSigma - 2011-Dec-29 (deleted by folks with nothing better to do)
 * Economy of the Bahamas - 2011-Dec-23
 * B visa, B visa - 2011-Nov-05
 * URL redirection - 2011-Jun-25 (since deleted)
 * Comparison of Internet forum software - 2011-Jun-21
 * Self-fulfilling prophecies in sports - 2011-Jun-02
 * Comparison of photo sharing websites - 2008-Sep-17

Wikipedia categories

 * Activity trackers - 2014-04-11
 * Places with bioluminiscence - 2013-Dec-04 (though it doesn't show in the logs)

Wikipedia proposals

 * Notability of FOSS - current draft, work in progress
 * RFC:Notability of free open source software - older version