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Last October, AngelList, a company that helps tech start-ups raise money and hire employees, held an office retreat. In the Hollywood Hills, far from Silicon Valley, the firm's mostly male staff mingled poolside with bikini-clad women who had been invited to the event.
Before the afternoon was over, Babak Nivi, a founder and board member at AngelList, said things that made Julie Ruvolo, a contractor, uncomfortable about working at the company. His comments included a suggestion that the women, who were not employees, warm up the pool by jumping in and rubbing their bodies together. The incident was described by two entrepreneurs who were told about it in the weeks after it occurred but were not authorized to speak about it.
Precisely what occurred at the Hollywood Hills event and the details of the agreement are not publicly known. Several weeks after the party, each side signed a nondisparagement clause as part of a settlement, the two people said. And neither Ms. Ruvolo nor AngelList are permitted to talk about what happened that day.
As more harassment allegations come to light, employment lawyers say nondisparagement agreements have helped enable a culture of secrecy. In particular, the tech start-up world has been roiled by accounts of workplace sexual harassment, and nondisparagement clauses have played a significant role in keeping those accusations secret. Harassers move on and harass again. Women have no way of knowing their history. Nor do future employers or business partners.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/21/abuses-hide-in-the-silence-of-non-disparagement-agreements.html
Related: Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
(Score: 5, Funny) by cafebabe on Monday July 24 2017, @09:34PM (5 children)
That's a lame suggestion. If we assume one bikini clad whore per cubic meter of water and that vigorous simulation of sex over a 24 hour period expends 4000 kcal and that all of the writhing and moaning is transferred to the water as heat, then we have 16.75MJ per sexual performer. However, this is for a cubic meter of water. So, that is only 16.75kJ per liter. With or without aroused women, water has a specific heat capaicty of 4.1814J/g/K per liter. Therefore, water temperature will be raised by approximately 4°C. Even when assuming 100% efficiency, this is a tediously slow method for heating a swimming pool and Babak Nivi should be rightly ashamed of this suggestion.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @09:54PM
Is it possible their bikinis would hinder the heat transfer? If so, isn't it fair to say these dancers deliberately ruined the party by wearing bikinis? Is it millions of dollars or billions of dollars owed in compensation to the executives?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @11:19PM
Wouldn't it be faster to just pee in the pool?
(Score: 1) by Virindi on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:44AM (1 child)
But what about displaced water? At some point the performer volume will exceed the overflow level of the pool, causing cooler water to spill out (which has been replaced be already warm bodies).
Plus, they could just be talking about the average temperature of all pool contents, which would include the performers themselves.
Perhaps we should seek a clarification.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:21AM
Further funding is required for this basic research. I understand that AngelList may be generously distributing funds related to this field.
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(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:48PM
I did not do well at physics, so thank you for your scholarly work in showing how little Mr Nivi was likely to achieve with this exercise. Perhaps you should offer your expertise to assist him in not wasting his money on such a poor return on investment?
Who am I kidding, he obviously knows *everything* already!