turtlesdown

You can't win a bad argument by just moving to an adjacent position (which is still wrong)

First, you originally claimed meat as a factor (apparently still after an edit). Second, a vegetarian can eat dairy products. Finally, the only working link above is pretty much worthless (122 participants who were asked questions, measured, and checked again in 3 years) as it does not capture final adult height.

>Also, "properly nourished" is a weasel phrase here.

For sure, just like debating about meat consumption and pivoting to just dairy consumption as proof...

>My brother and I are 3-4 inches taller than my dad, because we grew up on a meat and dairy rich American diet, versus the rice and lentil-based diet my dad grew up with in his village in Bangladesh.

No, your dad is likely shorter due to basic malnutrition. Malnutrition is caused by lack of appropriate macro and micro nutrients, irrespective of their source. Studies have shown that properly nourished vegetarians, vegans and meat eaters grow to the same height.

As for what to tell Bangladeshi's, maybe try "Bangladesh’s population at risk of sea level rise is predicted to grow to 27 million by 2050" http://icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IPCC-Briefing-f...

MSFT spent $7.2 billion dollars on Nokia in 2014 to try to increase their market share, which failed.

>Much like the death of the keyboard slider form factor on Android, the lack of sales came from consumers having no options to buy than not wanting the product.

I think it is very safe to say that no one wanted a Windows Phone, despite the backing of MSFT and tens of billions of dollars spent.

So far their PR has been exceptionally successful. Hopefully they bring their vehicles to market and they warrant some of the hype that is growing.

>Windows Mobile was a vastly superior operating system, but it was dropped because it was only in third place

Putting aside the claim that Windows Phone was a superior operating system...Windows Phone PEAKED at 3% of market, that was prior to spending $7 billion on Nokia in a desperate attempt to keep going. They dropped to 0.1% of the market at the beginning of the 2017 when they terminated it. It's ludicrous to suggest they could rebound from that. As for superior OS, they shipped Windows Phone 7 in 2010 without the ability to cut and paste text.

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/17/15984222/microsoft-windows-...

From the manager of Windows Phone, paying and even writing the apps for companies wasn't enough for them to want a Windows Phone app...

>“We have tried VERY HARD to incent app devs. Paid money. wrote apps 4 them.. but volume of users is too low for most companies to invest,”

My currently open Outlook is holding onto 125 MB of RAM. I have at least 12 spreadsheets open in Excel for 112 MB.

IMHO you are wildly overestimating the RAM use of those programs, aside from the others, as they normally run (sure - I can get Excel over a GB running scripts or manipulating a large file).

You are questioning the study methodology without bothering to read it. The burden is on you to actually understand what you are talking about.

it really is terrible

> The whole point is the cases where it's not.

So your argument is that blockchain is only useful for international trade with tiny businesses?

> Even for higher margin transactions, higher overhead is no advantage.

Most people consider low corruption, high rule of law countries ideal places for business, with the higher overhead...

> For example, you can have a perfectly legal contract, but the other party is in a corrupt foreign jurisdiction that would never find in your favor in the event of a breach. Then you can't contract with them because they have no incentive not to breach, without an alternative method of ensuring compliance that doesn't rely on their corrupt government.

International trade has perfectly good mechanisms for dealing with this at present. See: Letters of Credit.

> You may also have jurisdictions (like the US) where the process may be more fair, but it's unreasonably expensive, so if you're transacting with parties with a high probability of getting into disputes, something that can resolve them programmatically without litigation is an advantage.

The easy workaround to this is just to factor in additional costs for doing business...

> You're not a criminal, but you have bad credit or are from a disreputable country etc., so you're treated as one by the government or the rules targeting actual criminals cause companies to not want to do business with you, and you thereby need some alternative way to engage in your legitimate activities.

Probably still illegal to do business with you if the government has outlawed work with specific sanctioned countries, etc. Also, letters of credit.