<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>gen3</author><text>&amp;gt; This defendant schemed to export to China semiconductors with military and civilian uses, then he lied about it to federal authorities and failed to report income generated by the scheme on his tax returns&lt;p&gt;Funny how it always comes back to taxes, I wonder if that is how they were caught. I&amp;#x27;m also curious how he was contacted by that Chinese company. Did he just get an email one day asking for chips in exchange for money?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/engineer-found-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-military-chips-to-china/</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>jchallis</author><text>Pretty flagrant violation of export laws. With all the good behavior reductions, he has a decent shot of getting his sentence halved to 105 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/engineer-found-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-military-chips-to-china/</url></story>