J., a loyal MR reader, asked me for a post on “proliferation and separately nuclear exchange (war).” Let’s try the latter.  Every now and then I ask myself what is the most likely use of nuclear weapons, putting aside dirty bombs from terrorists and the like. My first pick is a scenario where North Korea bombs a Japanese city, perhaps Hiroshima or Nagasaki.... ~ Tyler Cowen

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is only part of the argument, this one you really do need to read the whole thing (and carefully):

Trump’s supporters are indeed correct to point out that previous administrations also told many lies, albeit of a different sort. Imagine, for instance, that mistruths come in different forms: higher-status mistruths and lower-status mistruths. The high-status mistruths are like those we associate with ambassadors and diplomats. The ambassador is reluctant to tell a refutable, flat-out lie of the sort that could cause embarrassment, but if all you ever heard were the proclamations of the ambassador, you wouldn’t have a good grasp of the realities of the situation. Ambassadors typically are speaking to more than one audience at once, a lot of context is required to glean the actual meaning, and if they are interpreted in a strictly literal man...

San Francisco, population 865,000, has roughly the same number of dogs as children: 120,000. In many areas of the city, pet grooming shops seem more common than schools.

There is also this: San Francisco’s public school system has around 53,000 students, a sharp drop from 90,000 in 1970.

I reside in SF and while empirically this seems to be true, I'm not sure if the data holds up as revealed by this Medium response. On the other hand, some of the highest rent prices in the nation and small apartments makes it more likely that families would want to move to more suburban areas that are still close enough to the city, like Berkeley, Fremont, Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc.