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An excellent comment on a compelling article from January:

"As a lifelong resident of Silicon Valley, I can only laugh. Our patented brand of NIMBY liberalism married to Asperger's-induced libertarianism makes this plan an utter pipedream."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-grand-...

Previous discussion of article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032555

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Weird to call NIMBY a liberal thing when many conservatives hate any kind of density planning or mass transit.

How many conservatives live in San Francisco? 12?

Many actually - they just don't realize they are in most ways conservatives.

I do think pro-regulation liberalism is fundamentally "conservative" in many ways, in that it is risk-averse.

"A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop"

When it comes to building things, yes, they are conservative.

I think the juxtaposition of the terms was intended by the commenter.

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