Theriault says it provides him with an existential thrill he likens to a narcotic.
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IL has also taken part in activities that one activist likens to online harassment.
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Here, he has installed a wooden, nest-like sculpture that he likens to his mother's womb.
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Beyond improving its customer service assistant — which Jain likens to an 'Alexa for call centers' — Observe.
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He's got a funny way of describing the case, which he likens to a murder charge.
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Simlish's distinctive sounds, which Kauker likens to a Midwestern-Latin hybrid, comprise its phonetics and phonology.
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"It's a bittersweet story," she recalls of the artwork above her bed, which she likens to Matisse.
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Putting the full project together has been a process Slug likens to movie making, involving meticulous sequencing.
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It's present in something as innocuous as a wedding quilt, which Grace likens to a battle flag.
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An impressive technological feat to be sure, one the Pentagon likens to hitting a bullet with another bullet.
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He's also the driving force behind Loop, an innovative service he likens to a 2000st century milk man.
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Two years later, it's been a steady ascent up, one that Maxwell likens to being on an airplane.
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This is seeing it pursue a hybrid online/offline model that Ashness likens to healthy snack company Graze.
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Go deeper on community-adjusted EBITDA, which Minson likens to unit economics of a restaurant or retail chain.
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Her discussion of Mark Rothko, whose art she likens to "smoldering, endless blocks of fire," is no less multifaceted.
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This shakes Dovi's faith, which he likens to a coat: one he can don — or remove — as he chooses.
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With an appearance like extra-fat spaghetti, pici are hand-pulled noodles that Bissonnette likens to Japanese udon in texture.
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The system produces a bright black-and-white image that Mr. Boston likens to that found in a Kindle Paperwhite.
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It also has a wall with open and closed storage that Ms. Williams likens to a painting by Piet Mondrian.
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It's a state of affairs that Julian likens to a "sex recession," one she sees as having potentially dire consequences.
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Employees trained on Loris will ideally develop essential communication skills, which Lublin likens to exercising and strengthening a muscle over time.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — For two days in South Carolina, Joe Biden sought refuge in a state he likens to a second home.
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In the near term, though, Walmart has been testing a "Pickup Tower," which it likens to a vending machine for online orders.
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More recently, it announced it would be letting customers try pieces on before fully committing, something Digiday likens to Amazon Prime Wardrobe.
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Ava DuVernay ("Selma") confronts the industrial prison complex, which she likens to a plantation system for the enslavement of African-American men.
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Ava DuVernay ("Selma") confronts the prison industrial complex, which she likens to a plantation system for the enslavement of African-American men.
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He has some problems with his brain, a condition he likens to living with "an anarchist" who happens to be relentlessly detail-oriented.
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It's a liberal "death positive" approach, one that Carvaly likens to "breaking down the walls and windows" of a rigid centuries-old industry.
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Sir Don still does long, therapeutic stints in his dark room in Somerset, which he likens to being "alone in your mother's womb".
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Different realms offer different experiences: some offer exploration, competition, or meditative experiences; another he likens to a sort of petting zoo for kids.
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Nina Katchadourian interviewed staff members to create a dust-focused tour, available through April 21, that our critic likens to a scavenger hunt.
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The result was Ordinary Beauty, a ring bearing a voluminous paper flower whose crinkly petals she likens to her grandmother's delicately wrinkled skin.
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Through regular horn trimmings, which Hume likens to humans cutting their nails, he has stockpiled more than five tons of horn to sell.
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The bulky, bald Lancastrian whom one admirer likens to Colonel Kurtz, the Marlon Brando character in "Apocalypse Now", rules Durham Constabulary in idiosyncratic style.
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VW, eager to move on from the diesel emissions scandal, unveiled a battery-powered I.D. concept car that it likens to its iconic Beetle.
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" This video shows the deep bends, the movement and the flow, which Ms. Nair likens to "little waves that slowly merge in the ocean.
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The company, which Pergande likens to other vertical marketplaces such as Uber and AirBNB, has a vast database of pending tickets available for buyers.
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These are early steps in a decade-long plan to inject a more European experience into an area, which Mr. Kircher likens to the Alps.
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Even hidden under an inch of fat tissue, a vein will have a distinctly bouncy feel that Olton likens to pressing on a water bed.
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It would also have to navigate an environment that Claude Clément of the Wyss Centre likens to a jungle by the sea: humid, hot and salty.
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Still, companies will need to work with their virtual meeting service providers to give remote shareholders an experience that likens to those who attend in person.
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Omagari follows Muroga's forward with a preface that ups the ante, focusing on the 8×8-pixel plane, which he poetically likens to an infinity symbol.
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What followed the dissolution of that was a period Sutter likens to Rumspringa, the point in an Amish person's life where they're permitted to live without restraint.
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Cronofy's 'single calendar API' lets developers quickly integrate their apps with customers' calendars, functionality Bird likens to what Twilio has done for messaging and Stripe for payment.
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Creating a strain of weed with all of the properties you're looking for is a process of trial and error, one that Jackie likens to dog breeding.
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Still others take the form of symmetrical hexagonal shapes connected by a blob in the middle; these Sova likens to the Imperial TIE fighters from Star Wars.
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The philosopher Lisa Heldke has critiqued the colonialist impulse behind what she calls "eating adventures," which she likens to collecting and uprooting artifacts from their cultural context.
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Until nine years ago, though, he patrolled the fictional city of Freeland, wearing a space-age electro-suit that one observer likens to a Parliament-Funkadelic outfit.
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Small, smart, nimble technologies are swarming up around big, dumb, slow ones, a process Michael Liebreich, head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, likens to mammals overrunning dinosaurs.
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It's most common in pregnant and postpartum women because of the load a growing fetus places on the linea alba, which Bowman likens to a shirt seam.
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But he understands that customers don't want their interactions sold to a third party, which he likens to the grocer gossiping with the banker about what you bought.
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Under the superficial façade of the Valley girl, Kauffmann sees a more complex reality, which she naturally likens to Alicia Silverstone's character Cher in the 1995 film Clueless.
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" For a few undoubtedly euphoric months, Hitler was also getting swabs of high-grade cocaine, a sedation and stimulation combo that Mr. Ohler likens to a "classic speedball.
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The downturn, which Goldman Sachs likens to a depression, has even exceeded the 3003 percent decline during the so-called lost decade of the 1980s, when Brazil fought hyperinflation.
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Here again was a central courtyard open to sky, which Eliade likens to the smoke hole in a temple and sees as part of a communication with the transcendent.
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The nearly three-minute clip ends with Prince meeting a secretary who explains that she does everything her boss asks her to do, a position Prince likens to slavery.
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Petronio preaches a "kinetic flow" style that project "conscious energy into space," while Cunningham had a basic aesthetic that Petronio likens to photography, where the dancer is always in control.
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And at Harvard's Wyss Institute, biochemist Peter Nguyen is developing a system for medical field operatives to make life-saving drugs that he likens to making a Cup of Noodles.
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February - After agreeing their negotiating terms, EU-27 may be ready to open talks with London on a free trade pact that Brussels likens to one it has with Canada.
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They particularly hoped he would end the system of indefinite conscription that the UN likens to mass enslavement—and which has helped earn Eritrea the nickname "the North Korea of Africa".
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February - After fine-tuning their negotiating position, EU-27 may be ready to open talks with London on a free trade pact that Brussels likens to one it has with Canada.
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The conflicts among the four friends, and eventually with the formidable Gina as well, are carried out in a series of arguments and arias the playwright aptly likens to a fugue.
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Her most imminent manifestation, though, is hosting a sound bath, in which friends are invited to bathe in the meditative hum of gongs, an experience she likens to an internal massage.
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February - After agreeing among the 27 their negotiating terms, EU may be ready to open talks with London on a free trade pact that Brussels likens to one it has with Canada.
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The round trip to and from North Korea can take as long as a year, a process she likens to shouting from a mountain top and hearing her voice 12 months later.
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They seem intended to make the mirrored rooms the ultimate expressions of her vision, her repetitive motifs and her obsession with infinity, which she also likens to obliteration, or a form of death.
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This person is in full view, yet invisible — a situation the writer-performer Alessandro Magania likens to that of an immigrant quietly minding his or her business, or someone deliberately trying to escape attention.
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But now as the host of the Daily, a role he likens to "curating the best storytelling" at the Times, he's at the forefront of a shift in how audiences relate to the media.
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The actual gist of the case, as Jimmy says on the bus, is that Sandpiper management has nibbled away at the savings of its residents, which he likens to a mistake on a dinner bill.
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But each time they scan, the cart is actually taking 120 photos and precisely weighing the items to train Caper's machine vision algorithms in what Gao likens to how Tesla is inching toward self-driving.
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The Angels were the top of the food chain in outlaw-bike culture, and it was Christie's dream to join the infamous club, a prospect he often likens to running away and joining the circus.
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" Trump, though, has said he's determined to move fast on a range of fix-ups, from roads and bridges to electrical grids, water systems, and airports, some of which he likens to "a horror show.
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"At night I tell myself, this is our waiting area, this is where we are waiting to go to our Canaan," she said, waving her hand around the home she likens to a tomato box.
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In his inaugural address, Lopez Obrador vowed to end the rule of a "rapacious" elite and pledged to bring about a radical rebirth of Mexico that he likens to independence from Spain and the Mexican Revolution.
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So far, the technology works with generators (which Timm-Brock likens to a diesel truck with no wheels), HVAC systems and forklifts, which look a lot like other logistics and construction equipment, including backhoes and excavators.
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It's only when Sviri, who Stott likens to an editor or curator, begins picking the strongest material and suggesting tweaks that the music goes from a series of tests and hypotheses to a polished, nine-track release.
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To capitalize off his fifteen minutes of fame and the burgeoning celebrity of others, Jake has created Team Ten: a YouTube talent incubation company he likens to tech seed accelerator Y-Combinator that gestated Airbnb, Reddit, and Twitch.
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At each location, they mounted a camera on a 20-foot-high tripod and, over the course of several hours, took hundreds of photos of the workspace—a process Korfmann likens to "scanning" the location with her camera.
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His guide is Meyer Offerman (Pacino), a wealthy concentration-camp survivor who Meyer likens to X-Men patriarch Professor X and refers to as "Bruce Wayne rich," and who uses those resources to fund the Nazi-fighting efforts.
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Through it all, Zoboi weaves a fascinating and beautiful thread of spiritual mysticism, centered on Fabiola's commitment to the Haitian Voudu tradition (which Zoboi, in an author's note, likens to the complex pantheon of Greek and Roman mythologies).
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" Applewhite — or "Do," as he was known to the group — led classes Lyford now likens to "astronaut-training," noting the lessons were designed to help the cult's members "transform onto a different world, where we would have more awareness.
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Composed of electric pink, purple, and blue noodles my friend likens to "intestinal parasites" and topped with a cream sauce that looked more or less how I imagine unicorn vomit might, it is enough to momentarily silence our table.
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When Phil's beloved phone breaks, he seeks a new one with a fervor that a phone-store employee (Wanda Sykes) likens to addiction, though she notes at least "a crackhead gets his steps in" and socializes with other crackheads.
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An avalanche of cartoon postcards, which Atkinson likens to "tweets of their day," stereotyped them as ugly spinsters, as brattish children, as geese and cats and men and monsters—anything to undo their femininity and render them acceptable targets.
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Unglamorous and at times disheartening for those involved, this is the sharp end of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's campaign to boycott an election he says amounts to the rigged reappointment of Putin, whom he likens to an autocratic Tsar.
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In addition, every image on a photographer's individual Picfair Store will also be available simultaneously on Picfair's marketplace, which Lanyado likens to "thousands of local image stores across the globe, with a central Amazon-style megastore they all feed in to".
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He wants to wrest control of the country's mosques from foreign hands, a task he likens to that of Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first chancellor, when he tried to prise the Catholic church from the Vatican's clutches in the 19th century.
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Her dramatic divorce from a man she likens to a cult leader is the subject of a salacious, self-serving, mostly unverifiable account of her West Wing tenure, "Unhinged: An Insiders Account of the Trump White House" (Gallery Books, 330 pages).
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Trump focuses so much on winning individual news cycles, like a reality TV show star who thinks of each day as an episode, that he often loses sight of this long game amid a pandemic he likens to a war.
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" And finally, there's worry that the convenience of pharmacy access might dissuade some women from going to their physician for pap smears and STD screenings, an argument Roth likens to holding a woman's birth control "hostage to her getting the other services.
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In Big Time, a new documentary by the Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Ingels refers to it as a "Courtscraper," since the center of the pyramid is left open for a planted courtyard that Ingels likens to a private Central Park (the gimmick).
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Among the corporation's proposals is modular housing: a configuration of stackable, uniform micro-lofts it likens to Legos as a futuristic effort to address a tech-inflected housing crisis—evoking Google's and Facebook's plans to construct employee housing near their Northern California offices.
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This community data driven events programming extends to testing the intent users have for different themed "immersive experiences" in different settings and scenarios — a process it likens to Netflix's approach of using analytics to understand audiences to develop and market new content.
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" He says there are instances when a repair to a solid-state drive or a Touch ID sensor on a Mac laptop will result in the replacement of the motherboard, which he likens to "prescribing a heart transplant for a common flu.
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In addition to guests, the space has to accommodate more than 40 staffers, ranging from performers and tech personnel, to security and a parking lot attendant (a clown named "Bubbles," who Keaveney likens to a smarmy lounge performer, "the Tony Clifton of clowns").
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The box comes with 847 pieces, enough to build, one at a time, five specific robots: a cat, a guitar, a forklift, a Johnny Number 5 lookalike (pictured above), and an automated brick-building machine that Lego likens to a 3D printer for Lego.
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Without validating what she likens to a "death cult," Wynn explores the similarities between the digital self-harm of incels and that of trans women who are early in their transitions, building a bridge of empathy with a noxious group that has produced literal terrorists.
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In a process he likens to the monotony of "digging a trench," he'd spend hours and hours just listening to the material, building up a sound library before finally, toward the end of 2015, putting together the three long pieces that comprise the album.
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While she had no shortage of bits and pieces for songs ("I had a manila folder full of A4 pages and I would stick them onto the wall like A Beautiful Mind") what was forming wasn't quite right, an experience she likens to "tunnel vision".
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" Next, there's Georgia Alice, a five-year-old New Zealand label that Aiken likens to "a more contemporary Ellery and Tome with a bit of Tibi," and notes that Alice is retooling "classic wardrobing and made it interesting with a more modern and exaggerated aesthetic.
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After being heckled at a rally for being in a punk band, Beto talks about how punk strips "rock and roll back down to its roots" and takes it "away from corporations," which he likens to what he wants to do to Washington as a politician.
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The book offers a more personal version of the pun-laden shtick that fans have come to love from "Good Eats," his first TV hit, mixed with the polished authority he showed as the M.C. on "Iron Chef America," a job he likens to circus work.
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" Among many, the biggest criticism Strobel's book receives is that all of his sources for historical or scientific information come from Christian apologists, never any non-believers, a circumstance Connell likens to "scientists who work for oil companies trying to prove global warming is a hoax.
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Developers can use Golem's open-source code and task API to create program that uses the network and put it on Golem's application registry, which Azar likens to an app store, and make it available for others to use and, if the developer so chooses, pay for. iEx.
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This she likens to the human capacity for procreation: Just as we have the power to bring new human beings into the world, so also we have the power to bring new ideas into the world that reshape their environment, having ripple effects of responses that are also new.
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Buyers in the province of San José, and particularly in Escazú — which Mr. Herrera likens to a cosmopolitan American city such as Miami — are mostly people who have business in the capital, along with retirees or people close to retiring who are looking to move to a temperate climate.
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In essence, White Knuckle patented remotely updating software, using specific instances like updating the grass in a stadium, as grounds for the legitimacy of its patent, a move the EFF likens to drawing a distinction between an invention for a car driven in San Francisco and a car driven in Los Angeles.
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Morris tells us exactly what he thinks about everything (religion, marriage, ballet, music from all over the map) and about everyone in his life, including the still-living people and the famous ones like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma and the director Peter Sellars (whose hairdo he likens to "wheatgrass one might buy for a cat").
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This experience, which he likens to "appearing as mere data to a predatory thing hovering over you," has led Khan to believe that our planet has reached a "nexus of crisis" predominantly caused by the militarization of public space and the dehumanizing aspects that a Predator drone's algorithm, or a CCTV camera's machine vision, can have.
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Arjun Chandrasekaran, a graduate student at Georgia Tech who studies AI and humor, said Shane's work — which he likens to an AI form of MadLibs — highlights an important point about current AI capabilities: the humor comes from the mistakes the neural network makes while working on a real task (such as generating names of real snakes), rather than from coming up with results that are meant to be funny.
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In "The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28), Stephan Talty resurrects the engaging tale of Joseph Petrosino, who almost single-handedly battled prejudice in the department and suspicion from his countrymen, whom the Black Hand subjected to a reign of terror that the author likens to what black Americans faced from the Ku Klux Klan.
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Two of the chef's favorite dishes that have made it on the menu are the avocado toast, which is topped with sliced radishes and a crumble of "diablo puffs" (a creation of his that he likens to a vegan chicharon and is made with Taco Bell's signature diablo sauce), and chilaquiles, a Mexican egg dish that is typically made with stale tortillas which get replaced with the chain's spicy fire tortilla chips in Pisciotti's version.
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