They are, they are just less racist than all the other methods.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/reinstate-standardized-testing

This is not a 5th amendment issue, it's a matter for the 4th amendment.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

If there is a warrant based on probable cause, they can search it.

No, their job is supposed to be to define a fair and safe playing field.

Not exactly. They are supposed to create laws and a regulatory structure in accordance with the best interest of the people so governed. There are many competing interests at stake, and a "level playing field" can have a lot of meanings.
It is a legitimate use of municipal authority to regulate the availability and type of housing stock, and to not allow disruptive business practices that negatively impacts constituents by reducing the stock of available housing and/or impacting the quality of life for long term residents.

Obviously in practice, the regulatory framework is often gamed by various entrenched interests, but ultimately municipalities will generally respond to the concerns of homeowners and long term residents as they vote.

Google not only admitted that brain teasers are useless; they eventually admitted that they found no correlation between ANY hiring criterion and job performance.

Employee performance in a role is affected by a large number of external factors. I have seen employees that were difficult to work with and not productive on one team that were model employees when moved to a different team with a new manager.
It's not hiring that's broken. The interview process should do two things: Confirm that the person actually has the experience they described on their CV, and to the extent possible, get a sense of their attitude and personality.

Actual employee performance is more a function of ones manager and the various processes they use to do their job. If the requirements gathering and architecture design process is broken at a company, it doesn't really matter how good a developer you hire.

From this brief description, it sounds like a better target of this suit might be Zipcar...

But that's not nearly as compelling a fight.

"No one buys insurance expecting up front to either subsidize other clients or be subsidized themselves"

The only reason people don't expect this is because they don't understand how insurance actually works. Apparently, you are one of these people.

As I recall back in the day, the reason to contribute to Open Source efforts was not because you were going to make bank from it, but to make sure that the source code was available and could be modified or extended by those people who wanted/needed to as long as they shared the results.

This movement has always been an explicit "end around" the restrictions of copyright law. Going back to the dark ages of closed source and proprietary code won't be doing anyone (especially open source developers) any favors.

A multi trillion dollar military defense complex.

If you can't show (read persuaid) someone else what your data is saying, your analysis is effectively useless.

It's fishier than that. From the link:

The $1 million investment goes specifically to OB1, the newly formed company headed by CEO Brian Hoffman, previously a cybersecurity and IT consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton,

Some background on Booz Allen:

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is an American management consulting firm headquartered in Tysons Corner, Fairfax County, Virginia in Greater Washington DC, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Its core business is the provision of management, technology and security services, to civilian government agencies, as a security and defense contractor[5] to defense and intelligence agencies, and to civil and commercial entities.

Former Booz Allen guy running it? I hate to be the tinfoil hat guy (Ed note: liar, he really does) but that makes me skeptical.

enough of a Randroid to want to give people their money's worth.

Oh the irony.... Your individual contributions have negative value if they cannot be used and leveraged by the entire project/team. No one is an island. Software development is a team sport and there is nothing more useless than a cowboy who doesn't believe they have to follow standard process and methods.

There is nothing lucky about having good public transportation infrastructure. It requires sensible public policy, a populace willing to pay taxes and an electorate that votes for it. Perhaps after a few thousand people lose their drivers license they may be inclined to support it.

developers who are nice to each other, write to spec, comment appropriately, and write code that anyone can understand and maintain.

This is pretty much the textbook definition of a good programmer, not a mediocre one.

The cost of non billiable hours are built into what you pay for parts and labor. Ever wonder why list prices for construction materials and auto parts are so high and the contractor and mechanics get discounts? It's to pay for overhead costs. If the people doing micro work have built this into their rates, than there is no difference. However, the nature of these sites makes it difficult to include that cost, so people accepting the work are enabling self exploitation.

Let's exterminate ourselves

Don't you worry. That's more or less exactly what is going to happen if we do nothing about climate change. It's a problem that solves itself!