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…mate the Nikkei 225 index will recover to 20,000 by end- 2017 (see $/¥'s eventual surge: Buy Nikkei 06 September 2016). Our new Chief Japan Economist Izumi Devalier forecasts above-consensus Japan GDP growth and inflation in 2017, which is also supportive of our bullish equities...

…ade deal was off, the historical echoes in Beijing were loud and clear. Almost exactly 100 years earlier, China’s “May Fourth Movement” of 1919 was a direct response to the actions of President Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War I. Wilson had promised China, an American ally,...

… stay out of it. To do otherwise was clearly not just against the US-led coalition’s interests. Given the importance of our alliance with Washington, it was against our inrerests as well. Yet with hostilities obviously getting closer, Misha phoned Defense Secretary Dick Cheney a...

…am competition, Android technical issues, product cycle lumpiness, and seasonality to the recent slowdown. Nonetheless, our sense is that DAU expectations are around 164-166mn, and we'd expect variability (higher or lower) to have a meaningful impact on stock sentiment. In terms...

…d totalitarian states that persecute and murder entire harmless populations for behaving differently. We are ashamed of our own recent past, in which it was honorable to beat children bloody for mere disobedience. And before that, to own human beings as slaves. And before that, t...

… and again and again. te Ok ok Interview with Richard Berkowitz, Star of Sex Positive and Icon of Safer Sex Activism Our second film at my awesome sex-positive film series was Sex Positive, a fascinating documentary about the history of safer sex. I'll be honest: I was psyched...

12.6 The Ethical Treatment of AGIs 229 While the issue is subtle, our initial feeling is that the only ethical means by which to deprive an AGI of the right to internal self modification is to write its code in such a way that it is impossible for it to do so because it lacks th...

…cially incorporated advances in artificial intelligence, everybody probably comes up with a slightly different picture. Our idiosyncratic visions of the future might differ in the presence or absence of spaceships, flying cars, or humanoid robots. But one thing doesn’t vary: the...

… in east Jerusalem. They tracked down the man who rented it. A little before dawn the morning of October 14, barely 12 hours before the Hamas deadline, Shin Bet established that Wachsman was being held in a village on the road to Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, in a house owned by...

…can also set us on the wrong track. The enemy acts not just on the battlefield but also through an ability to influence our understanding of the situation by means of denial and deception. In this and other ways complexity reinforces uncertainty.1 The large number of actors invol...

…turned out to be a new ground-to- ground missile, not yet formally in service, which had been sent into Lebanon without our knowledge by the northern command. While that trouble was averted, much worse lay ahead. Yanoush asked to be brought up to date on our progress in taking c...

…Mansion: I am happy to report that we have completed the building's demolition stage. I have included a few photos for your reference. Furthermore, we are very close to filling our building permit and we have finalized our design for the units. Please see the attached plans. The...

…e there seems to be no way of verifying the truth of moral judgments, they cannot be anything other than expressions of our feelings or attitudes. So, for example, when we Say, “You ought not to hit that child,” all we are really doing is expressing our disapproval of your hittin...

Some Notable Observations US Equities Have Been Shunned All Along In both our 2018 Outlook and mid-year update, we highlighted the surprising absence of inflows into US equities based on flows into mutual funds and Exchange-Traded Funds. As shown in Exhibit 9, flows into US equ...

…tional Security Agency that was located in Oahu, Hawaii. He revealed in a calm, unemotional voice that he had been the source for the stories in both the Guardian and the Washington Post. He said that he had supplied the secret, classified documents that the two newspapers had us...