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vladd

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About vladd

I'm Vlad Dascalu, the CEO of Beetux Software - a Romanian-based company located in the city of Bucharest.

Among other web properties, it operates www.Goobix.com - a significant collection of browser-based online games.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46475856

    Where does Russia's attack of Ukraine fits within this?

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    Comment #44417015

    The market can remain irrational more than you can remain liquid.

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    Comment #41272690

    > Not really because there are too many other variables You can average out countries that equalize property rights to the state vs. average of countries where property variance is…

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    Comment #41272473

    > The current economic system funnels economic value from the poor to the ultra rich. The economic system creates values (and you can compare it with alternatives such as Soviet Un…

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    Comment #41263001

    Since bonds are always reaching their promised payout terms upon their maturity, you can manage that risk through proper alignment in maturity dates. You can purchase multiple bond…

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    Comment #38443603

    In Romania, one of the top 5 ISPs, telekom.ro, is still doing it in present days.

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    Comment #38230362

    If the business is the customer, upgrading a machine increases the customer price hence it requires communication as it changes the benefits/cost value proposition.

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    Comment #37279680

    > we are an independent entity not owned by or associated with the Mozilla Foundation Who owns then Zarro Boogs Corporation?

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    Comment #36451391

    https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types is a pretty good (and free) resource to get started in this field.

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    Comment #36425461

    Why think in binary? His anecdote can be inspirational for others and testing his correlation is cheap to try out for others in similar predicaments.

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    Comment #36408723

    People cannot create fiat currencies out of thin air. When done it's a crime (currency forgery).

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    Comment #36269843

    I created a "Reddit for News" where various RSS feeds provide an initial stream of stories but people have Reddit-like abilities to upvote or submit their own. It's at https://www.…

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    Comment #35857664

    Just to remember that there are different sorts of liabilities and punishment. For example, losing one's net worth might be an example. Shareholders are already subject to it, whil…

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    Comment #35773545

    Similarly to how we removed a lot of workforce from agriculture in the last century. The breadth and scope of services offered increased ten-fold and workers learned to add value i…

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    Comment #35213742

    Which registrar are you using that allows payment in advance beyond 10 years?

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    Comment #34936503

    I liked in particular this year's collection of phrasings from Charlie, Warren's long time partner: • The world is full of foolish gamblers, and they will not do as well as the pat…

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    Comment #34493172

    > If you're going to make such a claim, the least you can do is cite at least one example. You can take a look at the process of naturalization (becoming a Japanese citizen): "Thos…

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    Comment #33874261

    I believe you get downvotes because you think by analogy rather than by reasoning. Not having that big corporation example doesn't negate Let's Encrypt's value proposition (and the…

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    Comment #33841429

    It unifies the Operating System with the cloud. Your local storage becomes irrelevant while at the same time you have full durability and portability of your environment on any dev…

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    Comment #33797696

    Statistically, companies surviving that long are related to the food and/or accommodation industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

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    Comment #31035367

    Price is what you pay, value is what you get.