Because Elon is famously vindictive for anything that is now fawning praise?
Because he's a sexy name to be affiliated with?
Because being in his good graces may yield something desirable such as an actual vent being donated once Tesla actually makes them?

The reason people are critiquing this is because he is making the donation of a device (that may help, I'm not a respiratory therapist) that is widely available and costs 1-5K appear to be one that costs 30-50K and has global scarcity. And again it shows Elon is a marketing genius before all else, with a brand that people love to be affiliated with.

This feels like Plex is trying to get rid of their old time lifetime subs. I'd imagine long time users of Plex are probably more technologically astute and more likely to care about this sort of privacy change... so why not change it, get delicious data and see if you can drop some of those guys that don't make you any more money. Nah... they wouldn't do that, right?

That's nice... but you are ignoring the part where living in coastal China is ridiculously expensive?
I mean Shenzhen at this point is on par with mid-tier US cities on cost of living.

there is a thriving urban middle class... heck

Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre
Shenzhen New York, NY
9,858.02 ¥ 8,505.93 ¥
(1,443.02 $) (1,245.10 $)
                                                      -13.72

Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre
Shenzhen New York, NY
5,118.91 ¥ 5,442.65 ¥
(749.31 $) (796.70 $)
                                                              +6.32 %

(source: Numbeo)

Might want to check that list...

Ted Cruz is southern baptist

Obviously I was referring to the x86 servers not the legacy platforms

So updating these servers with newer models via donation or whatever would go to great lengths to reduce that $20k bill.

I understand why they need the different build environments but:
2 Network switch vendors
3 UPS vendors
in 2 racks
It's like the thrift store of computer closets.

So two years after CEPT approved working towards the SMS messaging standards 3 dudes who nobody ever heard of met and invented the standard.

Unless the two unnamed people in this story are Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert it is a myth sold to a reporter.

Otherwise it's like the guy that copyrighted email.

It is a completely acceptable defense if you aren't on the losing side

10k? People are terrible at estimating the worth their stuff has. So that's probably closer to 2 or 3k (I'm not talking replacement cost I'm talking if we had to sell the stuff wholesale)

So we got the MRI and an aspirin covered at ER rate... congrats what are we getting for the rest of your bill?

Health insurance mandate protects the responsible part of the population from the irresponsible part that thinks they are invincible. Because right now we as a society are paying for the idiots that are using the ER as their general physician

What do you do when you are trying to maximize short term shareholder value in a distribution based business?
Cut R&D, get rid of sales staff for new markets...
Hit your profit goal, sell stock, get bonus by the time the company goes under you're long gone with your friends at McKinney.
Usually it takes 3 years in hardware for a R&D cut to show in sales figures... Mark it down also mark down the current CEO will be chilling on his new island by that time