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Tesla, Electric Vehicles, "Disruption" and Hype

On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Tesla Motors unveiled its much awaited "more affordable" fully electric sedan, the Model 3. It began taking pre-orders, with a USD 1,000 deposit required, and within hours had racked up in excess of 100,000. As of this writing, the number is over 276,

Skin Deep: Black Johnny Storm, White T'Challa and other Nerdery

As I write this, the 2015 theatrical reboot of the Fantastic Four film adaptations is failing miserably at the box office. Naturally, in an environment where superhero films are the most reliable earners in cinema, this prompts "analyses" and "think pieces" attempting to divine the reason why. And this affords

I Kissed the Sky, and It Bit Back

I was thirty-four years old the first time I got high. It wasn't the first time I'd tried marijuana, but it was the first time it had an effect on me—any effect. Until then my friends and I wondered if I was nonresponsive to THC. I conclusively determined that

Love in Stockholm

Last week, the poor state of independent software sustainability on iOS moved noted developer Brent Simmons to write an essay urging indies to "do it for the love [http://inessential.com/2015/07/01/so_much_love]," a resignation of sorts to the seeming reality that supporting oneself economically purely

Long Live Formula 1

You hear it almost everywhere in the Formula 1 community, from fans, from commentators, from bloggers, from former drivers: the rules are "ruining" Formula 1. You hear complaints about the lack of noise, how quiet today's V6 hybrids are in comparison to the V8s, V10s and V12s of yesteryear. You

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