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It’s been widely used in the soft drinks and dairy sector for at least 5 years now. I was involved in a UK-based “cold pressed” juice business and we used HPP to extend shelf life of our drinks from 2-3 days to 20-25 days (depending on the ingredients). This was 2013-2015 and there were already facilities who would batch HPP products for companies like ours.

I can see this potentially leading to a lot of poor ratings for riders who don't tip enough. And "enough" in cities like New York is IMO totally skewed.. I hope they implement it in a way that prevents this behavior; e.g. show aggregate tip stats to drivers, make tip amount visible only after rider rating.

What's interesting is the timing of the announcement. Snapchat timed the release at precisely 1:00 PM ET — the same moment Apple started broadcasting. I can imagine this is a common PR technique; hiding bad news behind the noise of a major event..

Thanks. That's what I ended up doing.. Luckily we had great legal council and the partner was kind enough to respond despite the outstanding legal bills we weren't able to settle!

For those interested this is the advice he gave us:

""just turn off the lights", do nothing. In order to formally dissolve, the corporation must pay all franchise taxes and "provide for payment of all liabilities". It costs too much to formally dissolve. There is no founder, officer or director liability to just ceasing business. Let the state dissolve the company. Also, there are no restrictions in starting a company later."

To put things in perspective, China holds approximately 7.5% of the total US debt load ($17.3 trillion). That's an estimated $1.3 trillion in U.S. Treasuries. They are the largest foreign investor in US treasuries's[0] and the major holders of all USD foreign exchange reserves due to their huge trade surplus with the US. These dollars need to be invested somewhere and the U.S. Treasury market is one of the few places that China can recycle its surplus dollars.

Even during the financial crisis in 2009 and the debate around the public debt ceiling in the summer of 2011 with the subsequent downgrade of the U.S. long-term sovereign credit by S&P, China continued to increase their USD reserves while other endowment funds in regions such as the Middle East took steps to diversify their FX reserves away from the USD. China is dependent on the US Treasury market - and it's stability - because as long as China continues to hold down the value of its currency to the USD, it will have few options other than to keep investing in U.S. dollar assets.

[0] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...

Awesome idea solving a real pain. Timely too given recent headaches with AWS sneezes.. Every time AWS has an issue, our site on Heroku is affected. Can you speak to SLA, downtime/uptime of service?

GoDaddy's DNS services were unresponsive or their servers were offline for the past 30 or so minutes. I'm not sure the extent of the problem or how many sites this affected but presumably thousands.

The issue appears to have been resolved now.

I’d be interested to see if they observed patterns or deviations from the norm when comparing between music genres and perhaps even eras / decades.

My sense, as a classical and electric (contemporary rock / blues) guitarist is that you'd observe interesting deviations from the aggregate results described in the study.

Digging a bit I found the following research piece which shares some more thoughts on this topic:

http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/cunninghams/research/mozart.pdf

In my opinion, Mark Zuckerberg's decision is a prudent and rational one. He is diversifying a heck of a lot of exposure away from a stock that is now at the mercy of the public equity markets. Besides, in relative terms, he is still retaining the vast majority of his wealth tied to Facebook stock.

His performance as a CEO is essential to ensuring solid performance for the company, but the stock price - like every other public share - is now at the mercy of macro variables that affect the performance of the equity markets as a whole...

Mark Zuckerberg is being prudent in diversifying a fraction of his exposure away not just from FB, but also from the asset class and perhaps even the currency / country.

C'mon, is anyone here willing to admit that they would not cash-out a small fraction of $18 bn tied to a single stock if you had the ability to do so??

Not just that but also macro variables that affect the performance of the equity markets as a whole... He is being prudent in diversifying a fraction of his exposure away not just of FB, but also from the asset class and perhaps even the currency / country.

Just found a cool script (thanks to Tony Cappaert who posted this on comments in Vin Vacanti's blog: http://bit.ly/wWbgek ).

Thought others may find it useful too!

- Script -

http://tonycappaert.com/projects/domaingen.php?suf=it - pre: any text BEFORE the consonant-vowel-consonant string - suf: any text AFTER the string - ext: the domain name extension (defaults to .com if left blank) - max: the maximum number of domain name results (starting at a random character)

Since GoDaddy limits the bulk check to 500, the quickest way to do a domain check is to run the script setting the max at 500, then just copy and paste the result in the bulk domain lookup.

Any scripts out there that people have used to search for availability of domains in bulk?

The issue of sustainable food production which this post touches on is obviously very relevant and serious. I personally hope for a not-too-distant future where innovative p2p technologies will empower individual producers/growers and reduce our dependance on the huge food companies. You are starting to see this more and more.. for instance, I think what the guys at http://growtheplanet are doing is great!