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Energy is the key factor here.
We're living in a time of mass extinctions that exceeds the fossil record by a factor of 10,000.
But the alarming thing is that astronomers recently have been studying stars that are similar to our Sun, and they've found that a number of them, when they're about the age of our Sun, brighten by a factor of as much as 20.
I worked hard in school, but when I was in eighth grade, it was a determining factor.
But she had a factor that was very important.
Maybe it's the ick factor.
In other words, it is accelerating by a factor of 10.
But that was the vision behind Glass, and that's why we've created this form factor. Okay.
And this is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision when you're out and about on the street talking to people and so forth.
But time is a factor.
This is the expression of the stock market of a massive bubble, a factor of three, 300 percent in just a few years.
If you go back over the history of ancient warfare, you will find time and time again that slingers were the decisive factor against infantry in one kind of battle or another.
Which also sounds like, if there is a case of flu, someone gave someone a case of flu, or a cold, or the greatest risk factor of tuberculosis is having been exposed to tuberculosis.
Expecting some metabolic or DNA factor at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the amount they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.
Another factor in Gando is rain.
In the span of about a week, it had dropped in brightness by a factor of [10].
The other factor, by the way, those of you who are parents, was being teased by family members about their weight.
This dropped the cost of putting objects up there by over a factor of 100, and suddenly we could afford to experiment, to take a little bit of risk, and to realize a lot of innovation.
And so, taking all of these different threads and putting them together, I asked, starting several years ago, is there an underlying mechanism for intelligence that we can factor out of all of these different threads?
One of the ways that we can understand that genetics is a factor is by looking at something called the concordance rate.
In doing this within these families, we were able to account for approximately 25 percent of the individuals and determine that there was a single powerful genetic factor that caused autism within those families.
A vast majority of those people are not necessarily carrying a particular genetic load or risk factor.
It's a quantitative expansion of neocortex, but that additional quantity of thinking was the enabling factor for us to take a qualitative leap and invent language and art and science and technology and TED conferences.
That additional quantity will again be the enabling factor for another qualitative leap in culture and technology.
Now, C4 is still just one risk factor in a complex system.
However, one crucial underlying factor is to change our attitudes.
Rational self-interest is not always the dominating factor.
These C.O.s play a big factor in these young people's lives for x amount of time until a disposition is reached on their case.
And to be really, really honest about it, not be in denial about any results that you see, because if you have something you love, you want to push it forward, but you have to be very, very honest about that factor on timing.
We just reduced accidents on our roads by a factor of two.
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