[zarzavat]

This is just NIMBYism, literally.

Street View is one of the most amazing technologies ever invented. It brings humanity closer together. No longer do you need to get a visa and get on a plane to see what the world is like in a particular place. You can just look on street view. Throughout history people have given up their lives for that kind of world knowledge.

Your inclination to ruin one of humanity's greatest achievements with distance-based blurring to protect the privacy of what is already visible at street level is just sad.

[frollogaston]

NIMBY is something different, but I'm a proud NIMBY too. People can vote for what happens in their own towns.

[satvikpendem]

At the expense of the overall economic health of everyone. See the rents in San Francisco for examples compared to places where countries actually build, like Singapore and China.

[frollogaston]

If that's good long-term for the people in SF who've already invested their time and money there, shouldn't be any other way. It's also not some zero-sum game where voting against development always benefits them at the cost of others; sometimes they want development.

[satvikpendem]

It's not good long term for them though, as housing disparity statistically correlates to higher crime.

[frollogaston]

Maybe more development wouldn't have caused lower crime in SF, we won't know. And that's also not the only thing they care about.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> This is just NIMBYism, literally.

No. OpSec is not Nimbyism.

> It brings humanity closer together.

Sure, then they show up at your door angry about something they saw online. No thanks.