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Microsoft grew up during the 1980s and 1990s, when the growth in personal computers was so dramatic that every year there were more new computers sold than the entire installed base. That meant that if you made a product that only worked on new computers, within a year or two it could take over the world even if nobody switched to your product. That was one of the reasons Word and Excel displaced WordPerfect and Lotus so thoroughly: Microsoft just waited for the next big wave of hardware upgrades and sold Windows, Word and Excel to corporations buying their next round of desktop computers (in some cases their first round).
How Microsoft Lost the API War
joelonsoftware.com
The base layer of the bitcoin network is not competing with things like Visa; it is competing with central bank settlements; the root of the global financial system. It’s an entirely separate root layer, built on computer networking technologies and internet protocols rather than channels between central banks and commercial banks.
What Is Money, Anyway?
lynalden.com
Carlos Monteiro first published the NOVA classification system for food processing, which now defines four processing categories
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: unprocessed and minimally processed foods; processed culinary ingredients; processed foods; and ultra-processed foods. Unlike minimally processed and processed foods, UPFs are not modified whole foods; they are, under NOVA, “industrial formulations made mostly or entirely with substances extracted from foods, often chemically modified, and from additives, with little if any whole food added.” Most plant-based meats, including Impossible and Beyond, fall into this category.
Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat—Asterisk
asteriskmag.com
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