<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>zardo</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t trust the testimony of a paid expert witness. They always have strong convictions in favor of the side paying the bill, even if the evidence available clearly can&amp;#x27;t support such absolute conclusions.&lt;p&gt;Even if they aren&amp;#x27;t just liars, the lawyers can just keep trying different &amp;#x27;experts&amp;#x27; untill they get one who tells the story they want to hear. It&amp;#x27;s just cover for making an argument from authority.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda hard to square John&amp;#x27;s post-trial comments &amp;quot;I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence, and all of my data is accounted for, contrary to some stories being spread.&amp;quot; with ZeniMax&amp;#x27;s post-trial comments at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;zenimax-awarded-500-million-in-oculus-lawsuit.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;zenima...&lt;/a&gt; that  &amp;quot; (vi) Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive—and data on other Oculus computers and USB storage devices were similarly deleted (as determined by a court-appointed, independent expert in computer forensics);  ... (viii) Carmack filed an affidavit which the court&amp;#x27;s expert said was false in denying the destruction of evidence; &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What is a reasonable explanation of this discrepancy? Varying notions of what consitutes &amp;quot;evidence&amp;quot;? Or differences in facts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack on expert witnesses and &apos;non literal&apos; copying</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1913546895546485&amp;id=100006735798590</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>mememachine</author><text>It looks like either someones lying or wrong</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda hard to square John&amp;#x27;s post-trial comments &amp;quot;I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence, and all of my data is accounted for, contrary to some stories being spread.&amp;quot; with ZeniMax&amp;#x27;s post-trial comments at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;zenimax-awarded-500-million-in-oculus-lawsuit.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;zenima...&lt;/a&gt; that  &amp;quot; (vi) Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive—and data on other Oculus computers and USB storage devices were similarly deleted (as determined by a court-appointed, independent expert in computer forensics);  ... (viii) Carmack filed an affidavit which the court&amp;#x27;s expert said was false in denying the destruction of evidence; &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What is a reasonable explanation of this discrepancy? Varying notions of what consitutes &amp;quot;evidence&amp;quot;? Or differences in facts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack on expert witnesses and &apos;non literal&apos; copying</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1913546895546485&amp;id=100006735798590</url></story>