Farmers actually know quite a bit more about chemistry and biology than your average programmer. They might know more than Bill Nye, but he would never admit it.

Plants will grow less. Humans will burn more to stay warm. This does not sound like a good plan.

Whose metric? Does improvement mean fewer false convictions or more convictions? Does improvement mean conviction rates remain the same but everyone gets a lollipop?

I don't feel comfortable with the risky practice of consuming content and paying the price of exploit attempts via ad networks. It used to only happen on "sketchy" websites. Now big name news sites and the like are using sketchy ad networks that occasionally try to push malware. I've reached the point where I don't mind spending ten minutes figuring out which domains I can temporarily unblock safely for a site. It's rare that I go to "new" sites anyway. And ad domains are always blocked without question. If the site wants to host ads, they can do it the old fashioned way and host them on their own servers (and accept responsibility for the exploit attempts).

Humans can. Humans are great apes.

This assumes robots won't be disposable. They might be recycled when damaged and new robots built by other robots in a factory.

It's a bell curve, not a V. People with IQ "the exact number considered average" are the most populous compared to all other points on the chart. If IQ "average" was a score impossible to achieve, then your "50% below, 50% above" concept would make sense. As it is, it's a little less than 50% for both. And if "average" is a range rather than a precise number (most people consider it to be so with intelligence), then the percentages of population above and below drop considerably.

It's more than just one Borg one vote. There is no Alpha in charge of the Borg (the Borg "queen" or Unimatrix is a tertiary semi-autonomous drone that is budded off of the collective for a special purpose, much like Locutus and Seven of Nine), and the Borg aren't a democratic society. The Borg is a collective in the same sense that your body is a collective of cells. The Borg is a galaxy-spanning organism made of metal and humanoids.

Apple decides to make the screws for the iPhone 7 out of pentagonal graphene.

Anyone who works with a computer as their primary tool should know basic concepts of encryption. They shouldn't need to know how to use an algorithm in a specific programming language or a pencil and paper to encrypt something, but they should be familiar with public/private keys and how they might be used in general. Too many people are still emailing passwords et al unencrypted. And not just bankers or secretaries.. programmers and even sysadmins seem ignorant of how to use encryption for communications.

That doesn't use goto. The researchers were interested in uses of goto.

And my point is that a simple infinite loop might be within the researchers' definition of appropriate. Skewing the results.

I was just pointing out that most uses of goto (in any language) are childish infinite loops that pose no danger. This would skew the results of the study unless they ignored these as being trivial use.

FART: printf("FART\n"); goto FART;

And the immediate beneficiaries of this tax are not the public at large, but the lottery commission and advertising companies. Lotteries spend a lot of money on advertising.