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Also sorry I missed this, not only are we in Canada, we just signed our first partner on Vancouver Island – in Victoria, Pacific Heat Pumps: https://www.pacificheatpumps.ca/ We'll …

Thank you! Yes, that is the hope. And what a blast from the past :) Hope you are well

Yes this is actually the worst – when open minded people get a heat pump for "the right reasons" and then have buyer's remorse. Completely backfires the transition. Do you have a d…

That seems really weird, the only real difference is a reversing valve that costs a couple bucks. A heat pump is an AC, it just can be run backwards to produce heating as well. In …

Cool to see a Heat Pump article near the top of HN! I'm the founder/CEO of Quilt ( https://www.quilt.com/ ), which is mentioned in the article, and a decade+ daily reader of this f…

Yes, it's not about the menstruation, it's about pregnancy. Having a kid, especially the 1st, is the single largest shift in consumer spending in most people's lives (if they have …

Not sure why you think that? The nomadic population is between 25%-30%, two sources: 1) World bank gives 25% "around one quarter of households live nomadic life in Mongolia" https:…

This is true in mid and late career, but not early. Lots of mathematically and engineering minded college students consider both CS and mech/aerospace as majors. Of course career p…

Nice work! The most surprising part for me was that your websites says you are 20 years old – so I gotta ask, what was the motivation? I'm 39, born in 1983, so I have serious nosta…

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes." htt…

The anti-Google frothing here has gotten so extreme it's crossed into comedy. Maybe instead of assuming incompetence and malevolence you should consider how hard it is to do this p…

You're at the wrong company. I've worked at a startup, at Twitter, and at Google and each time there was notable "raising of the bar" in the talent I was around. I know there's a l…

I don't think that's totally right. The idea is to give Canadians a leg up vs. foreign buyers (once the immediate 2 year foreign buyer ban expires, I assume). If your operating mod…

Yes, since 2017 no Gmail data is used for any Ad targeting, across any part of Google. Here's a NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html Unfortunat…

My dad is a competitive runner and ultramarathoner (now well into his 60s). One of his favorite sayings is ‘how do you know if you’re a runner? If you don’t think about running whi…

"If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it." I can't speak for Zuck,…

No, you get a thick skin pretty quickly as a Google PM (and come to think of it as a Twitter PM too, my former job). Constructive comments are helpful and even the raw frustration …

Just to confirm, the Area 120 labelling is meant to do exactly that. Area 120 projects do not have long-term commitments, explicitly. But the goal is for the successful ones to gra…

[Disclosure I work at Google Area 120 and would be partly responsible for this type of decision] This is a really helpful comment and I like the nod to transparency. Thank you! Not…

Distribution. Getting an app installed is super tough.

The headline number is annual total compensation. So yes, ~$200K of shares will vest every year. The normal deal is 4-year grant with even vesting (sometimes after a 1 year cliff),…

"If you’re Google, it makes little sense to hire a generalist, I think." I'm a Googler and a generalist. This is of course just my opinion. In the two roles I've had, being a gener…