> Lawyers pay you a boatload of money to write a report that supports their case, then come to the trial (all expenses paid) where you spend an hour on the stan

> Lawyers pay you a boatload of money to write a report that supports their case, then come to the trial (all expenses paid) where you spend an hour on the stand being examined and cross examined about the report and also trying to blow holes in the other side's expert report. First, I have rarely seen an expert witness be given more than a few hours on the stand. Because, as jurors will be instructed by the judge, expert witness testimony is a special kind of evidence, allowed under specific rules, and they're rarely the bulk of any case's presentation in court. On the other hand, they may have spend countless hours doing specialized analysis, which has to be documented and stand up to literal legal scrutiny for correctness/completeness. The other side will do their absolute best to destroy your expert witness, often bringing up their hourly rate and prior cases they worked on. But - if their work was bunk, the opposing side would have the expert witness thrown off the witness list and their report excluded. This is court we're talking about. You've written an engaging post that seems mostly caught up in the hourly rate of someone else fitting a worldview where, based on an industry and hourly rate, you decide whether they earned it. Law firms employ smart people who would not pay hundreds of dollar for an outside expert who can't produce verifiable or at least defendable positions based in reality and experience. > "RAM cache" included caches that were solely on hard disk because "RAM" means "Random Access Memory" and hard disks are both memory and random access. Having used Connectix RamDoubler for many years, I would have verified the meaning if it was crucial for the operation of whatever I was paying someone to write for me. Cache is one of the more esoteric and nuanced areas in computing where hardware and software interact and any specifications related to cache should have been clearly defined. > It is not really a lot of work to write it. I love when people who haven't done something think they know how much work goes into it.