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The thing is you can have copyright law without FCC/SEC-style top-down rate-setting regulation (US copyright law predated the FCC/SEC by over a century).

The network on which smartphones plugged in predated them which is not true for the electrics cars and charging stations.

That Reddit maintained the employee for nearly two years, as you say, is clearly laudable, though this decision predated Pao.

Nitpick: the Einstein quote is predated by Nicolas Boileau in l'Art Poétique (1674) Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser.

It is quite anomalous in that the existence of the field long predated its power.

The Y combinator followed from of the invention of λ-calculus whereas formal logic predated both Russell as well as Curry/Haskell by a large margin.

UCS-2 was the 16-bit encoding that predated it, and UTF-16 was designed as a replacement for UCS-2 in order to handle supplementary characters properly.

It predated the Prius and looked exactly like a Civic.

Greek fraud predated this plan and worked during this plan.

I think the VC-10 predated the Il-62, but I might just be expressing a prejudice and assuming the Soviet plane was a clone.

It's more about how the systems and engineering that predated computing influenced its development to where it is now.

So Smalltalk, Java, VB (up to 6), C# and others all all languages that predated Go and Rust in memory safety, and came out in an era memory safety was de rigeur.

He predated what most people refer to as "quantum theory".

So I think the idea that "programming" was the lowest-level act feasible to instruct the machine what to do predated even the '60s.