<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VagueMag</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s completely silly to use &amp;quot;how was a typical prisoner handled&amp;quot; as the baseline for what should have been expected with Jeffrey Epstein. There was extremely intense news interest, mainstream outlets were speculating that his testimony might bring down a huge swath of the U.S. ruling elite, and every conspiracy theorist in the world was predicting (correctly, as it turned out!) that he would never make it to trial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t doubt that something fishy happened, but I also think that the repetition of those occurrences are something that fuels the fires of baseless conjecture.  There is no comparison to a baseline.  How scrupulous are the guards on a typical basis?  What were the existing uptime statistics for the cameras?&lt;p&gt;Any statistics for noncompliance at any sizable organization are going to be non-zero due to the law of large numbers.  That is just evidence that they exist and do things.  The baseline for comparison here shouldn&amp;#x27;t be zero, it should be the normal statistics for compliance.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>A little review of the incredible coincidences that led to Epstein&amp;#x27;s death by &lt;i&gt;suicide&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- When Epstein was placed in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate and that a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night he died.&lt;p&gt;- On August 9, Epstein&amp;#x27;s cellmate was transferred, and no replacement was brought in.&lt;p&gt;- The evening of his death, Epstein met with his lawyers, who described him as &amp;quot;upbeat&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- CCTV footage shows that the two guards failed to perform the required institutional count at 10:00 p.m. and recorded Noel briefly walking by Epstein&amp;#x27;s cell at 10:30 p.m., the last time the guards entered the tier where his cell was located.&lt;p&gt;- Through the night, in violation of the jail&amp;#x27;s normal procedure, Epstein was not checked every 30 minutes.&lt;p&gt;- The two guards assigned to check his cell overnight, Noel and Michael Thomas, BOTH fell asleep at their desk for about three hours and later falsified related records.&lt;p&gt;- Two cameras in front of Epstein&amp;#x27;s cell also malfunctioned THAT night.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:text=After%20prison%20guards%20performed%20CPR,was%20a%20suicide%20by%20hanging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:te...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epstein&apos;s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>landemva</author><text>Martin Armstrong was beat unconscious there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-secret-cycle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;the-secret-cyc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At one point, a fellow-inmate beat him in his cell. (Armstrong suspects that it may have been an assassination attempt.)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Martin recently wrote an interesting book about banker and politician meddling in Russia.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.armstrongeconomics.com&amp;#x2F;international-news&amp;#x2F;russia&amp;#x2F;the-plot-to-seize-russia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.armstrongeconomics.com&amp;#x2F;international-news&amp;#x2F;russia...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t doubt that something fishy happened, but I also think that the repetition of those occurrences are something that fuels the fires of baseless conjecture.  There is no comparison to a baseline.  How scrupulous are the guards on a typical basis?  What were the existing uptime statistics for the cameras?&lt;p&gt;Any statistics for noncompliance at any sizable organization are going to be non-zero due to the law of large numbers.  That is just evidence that they exist and do things.  The baseline for comparison here shouldn&amp;#x27;t be zero, it should be the normal statistics for compliance.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>A little review of the incredible coincidences that led to Epstein&amp;#x27;s death by &lt;i&gt;suicide&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- When Epstein was placed in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate and that a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night he died.&lt;p&gt;- On August 9, Epstein&amp;#x27;s cellmate was transferred, and no replacement was brought in.&lt;p&gt;- The evening of his death, Epstein met with his lawyers, who described him as &amp;quot;upbeat&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- CCTV footage shows that the two guards failed to perform the required institutional count at 10:00 p.m. and recorded Noel briefly walking by Epstein&amp;#x27;s cell at 10:30 p.m., the last time the guards entered the tier where his cell was located.&lt;p&gt;- Through the night, in violation of the jail&amp;#x27;s normal procedure, Epstein was not checked every 30 minutes.&lt;p&gt;- The two guards assigned to check his cell overnight, Noel and Michael Thomas, BOTH fell asleep at their desk for about three hours and later falsified related records.&lt;p&gt;- Two cameras in front of Epstein&amp;#x27;s cell also malfunctioned THAT night.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:text=After%20prison%20guards%20performed%20CPR,was%20a%20suicide%20by%20hanging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:te...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epstein&apos;s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff</url></story>