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.
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?
We built Cloud 66 to combine the convenience of PaaS with control of having your own servers. Even if we are down, your servers will still be up on your own preferred cloud vendor serving your users! That's a win for everyone!
This is very cool stuff. Do you guys support (or do you plan to support) any type of cross-provider failover? I.e. if AWS goes down, auto re-deploy to Linode and handle the DNS re-routing, etc.?
Great point! Yes. We already configure DNS records for the stack (load balancers and servers). This allows us to take the same cut of code and build scripts and execute them against another provider like Linode or Joyent when AWS has issues automatically.
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.
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:
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.
