estearum (u/estearum)

estearum commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

xsmasher · 2 days ago

If you remove parking requirements then the marketplace can discover the right amount of parking. Parking minimums keep the amount of parking artificially high.

estearum · a day ago

That's kind of eliding the whole point of parking minimums (which I also hate, by the way). Parking is a classic tragedy of the commons issue where each individual developer would prefer not to build any parking and externalize that cost onto nearby lots/public streets/following developers.

In fact developers did do this, and "the market" responded by creating regulations that prevent it. Which are obviously causing their own set of serious problems.

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

pkphilip · 2 days ago

It is not rare at all. Fact is, as more and more data comes out we are becoming more and more aware that the Covid vaccines have caused severe damage.

Here is the data collated from 125 countries: there were about 31 million excess deaths across the 2020-23 period.

Spatiotemporal variation of excess all-cause mortality in the world (125 countries) during the Covid period 2020-2023 regarding socio-economic factors and public-health and medical interventions https://hal.science/hal-05110349

Explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkKBqpLjAk

estearum · 2 days ago

Well that's a ridiculously stupid paper.

Major claim: COVID is not the correct explanation for the 31 million excess deaths during... COVID.

Reasons provided:

* Excess deaths didn't rise until after public healthy emergencies were declared (yeah, duh, emergencies were declared as testing showed extreme growth which occurs at least weeks prior to most deaths)

* Vast differences in mortality rate between political jurisdictions, even among those who shared borders (yeah, duh, sharing a border doesn't mean you have the same public health or data reporting systems as the county, state, or nation nearby)

* Erratic mortality patterns (yeah, duh, there's a seasonality to many viruses and one can quite obviously see that in excess mortality and also by uhh... living through winter...)

* Unstable economic correlations (yeah, duh, there were different interventions protecting or exposing different people disproportionately at different times)

So all of these things they say disprove the virus hypothesis.

Frankly laughable. Thank you for sharing!

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

Terr_ · 2 days ago

"At the same time everybody was using umbrellas, lots of people got wet! Clearly, umbrellas are at fault."

estearum · 2 days ago

If only there were some method by which we could disaggregate effects like these...

Perhaps we could get a huge number of people and then randomly assign some of them to a "treatment" group and then some to a "control" group. We don't tell people which group they're in. Then we measure whether they got wet.

Just a thought...

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

barbacoa · 2 days ago

>Those gigantic clinical trials (some of the largest RCTs ever conducted) didn't detect this issue because of its extreme rarity.

You assume good faith on their part. These studies are run by the same companies that stand to make billions based off the study outcomes. For example we know now when a toddler died in the Moderna covid RTC of cardiac arrest after vaccination they reportedly covered it up and didn't report it.

This all is starting to sound a lot like what happened with vioxx. Where an increase in heart problems was detected in RTC but covered up. Vioxx would go on to cause an estimated 50000 deaths from heart attack.

estearum · 2 days ago

> These studies are run by the same companies that stand to make billions based off the study outcomes

No they're not. Studies are run by a distributed network of large, medium, and small businesses who are independently following the "recipe" designed by the pharma company.

Then this data is submitted back to the pharma company and collated into a report that is given to the FDA.

It is effectively impossible to systematically get a couple hundred or couple thousand independent trial sites to misreport safety data.

It is possible that the pharma company could manipulate data during collation, but unsurprisingly there is a vast infrastructure to detect this and gargantuan penalties for when they're discovered.

> For example we know now when a toddler died in the Moderna covid RTC of cardiac arrest after vaccination they reportedly covered it up and didn't report it.

This is literally not true. You can find the death reported in the exact regulatory filing exactly when and where it should have been reported. What happened is that a Substack author found it and has made it seem like it was not reported.

Re Vioxx comparison:

Sure we should always be vigilant for another Vioxx. The way we do that is through fair and levelheaded analysis of the data we have available. Right now, that analysis lands very clearly on the side of vaccines. At the scale of vaccine rollout, we would not need to squint to see signal of a major problem.

estearum commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

bobthepanda · 2 days ago

Houston has these, parking requirements, etc. I would argue if anything that mandatory parking requirements have a larger impact than zoning. Parking lots themselves push things farther apart and make not driving unpleasant.

estearum · 2 days ago

I agree with you but I don't believe the marketplace does. If you get rid of parking requirements in Houston I doubt you'd see a significantly different development pattern because ultimately people there actually do need to park their cars.

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

mc32 · 2 days ago

Slowly the skeptics and the conspiracy theorists are getting proven correct in this case.

It’s unfortunate it’s taken so long for the hidden truth to come out. It’s also unfortunate they swept this under the rug which just increases people’s suspicion around vaccine safety. I hope they, the establishment, learn from this boondoggle.

estearum · 2 days ago

Lol, no they're not.

This is an extremely rare event that was nonetheless detected by scientists who then nonetheless updated dosing guidelines to mitigate it as early as February 2022.

This has been an active area of focus since before the drugs were even released which is why such events were in fact tracked closely during the 30,000+ participant clinical trials.

Those gigantic clinical trials (some of the largest RCTs ever conducted) didn't detect this issue because of its extreme rarity.

This is exactly the drug development and post-market surveillance process working correctly. At every point (and even still) the risk calculus is heavily weighted toward vaccination for nearly everyone, and slightly weighted toward vaccination for the most SAE-prone group (young men).

And that's all assuming COVID doesn't have latent systemic effects like many viruses do (chickenpox, ebola, or measles come to mind).

The skeptics have been wrong at every turn. It's even too generous to say a broken clock is right twice a day.

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

mc32 · 2 days ago

Twitter and Facebook were urged to label posts around myocarditis as “misleading” and wanted such claims suppressed.

estearum · 2 days ago

What were the specific claims being made?

estearum commented on Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/DeusExMachina

guywithahat · 2 days ago

I sort of thought that too; we've known it can cause myocarditis for years, it was the basis for people avoiding the mRNA vaccine (i.e. "clot shot"). Still though I'm happy to see people continuing to research this instead of just avoiding politically tense fields all-together

estearum · 2 days ago

> it was the basis for people avoiding the mRNA vaccine (i.e. "clot shot")

That's generous.

There is no sane reading of data at any point in time netted out risk in this way.

"Avoiding the clot shot" is a cultural statement, not a medical or scientific one.

estearum commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

bobthepanda · 3 days ago

Houston doesn't have zoning laws, but it does have private deed covenants enforced by the city which effectively work as zoning laws. https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Neighborhood/deed_restr.h...

estearum · 3 days ago

These allegedly cover only ~25% of residential lots in HTX (mostly the wealthy ones). So sure that's a similar tool and probably distorts things, but I would be very shocked to hear this is anywhere near as important as the infinite supply of ultra-cheap land on the outskirts of town plus public subsidized roads (which will eventually bankrupt the city).

estearum commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

nine_k · 3 days ago

It only makes sense to sprawl like in Houston if you never mind spending 3-4 hours commuting to work and back. Or if you can't afford anything better.

Ask well-paid people who keep renting apartments in Manhattan, or in downtown SF, to say nothing of Tokyo or Seoul.

estearum · 3 days ago

I realize "makes no sense" carries a double meaning here. I am speaking of the system-level decisions which end up actually producing infrastructure. You're right that sprawl is absolutely inhumane – we should absolutely nudge processes/incentives such that it's discouraged, but doing so is not as simple as just "get rid of zoning."