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'PRESSURE COOKER': WHY MILLIONAIRE NVIDIA EMPLOYEES ARE STILL WORKING UNTIL 2 A.M.

Many of Nvidia's employees are millionaires because of the company's growth. Despite this, the company still has a 'pressure cooker' culture with long working hours, yelling and fighting at meetings, and company politics. Some employees work every day, including weekends, late into the night. Employees who work less than the norm are called out at company-wide meetings. The company maintains a low turnover rate, likely due to the way it gives its employees access to stock grants and its 'flat' hierarchy, which could make the company an appealing choice.

WHY SHOULD ANYONE BOOT *YOU* UP?

Google researchers recently published a paper detailing a scanning process that can yield a geometric model of the brain's wiring at nanometer resolution. Further development of the method could result in technology that can scan a person's brain and recreate them far into the future. However, the amount of data needed to store all of the information from just one human brain is infeasible with current technology. The biggest problem in digital immortality might not be technical, but economical.

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