The most relevant bit to your question:

> Ajax operates a fleet of 20 buses to pick up the boys halfway through their school day and employs 15 teachers to tutor them when they arrive. Parents pay nothing except a nominal insurance fee of 12 euros a year, and the club covers the rest — salaries for 24 coaches, travel to tournaments, uniforms and gear for the players and all other costs associated with running a vast facility. Promising young players outside the Ajax catchment area usually attend academies run by other Dutch professional clubs, where the training is also free, as it is in much of the rest of the soccer-playing world for youths with pro potential. (The U.S., where the dominant model is “pay to play” — the better an athlete, the more money a parent shells out — is the outlier.)

That's like saying "I'm curious to know how the military is any different from a private military other than where the money is coming from." I'm sure you can figure it out.

EDIT Oh balls, I'll just tell you: poor people priced out; rich people win again.

There wasn't any bump in Tumblr creation timed to when Ao3 went down, and today the new season premiered, which triggers a huge bump on its own.

IIRC everyone involved in restoring this is a volunteer doing this in a few free minutes here and there. I don't think they have any paid IT staff. In the first three months of 2026, the entire org (which is more than just Ao3) spent around $50K total for all costs, most of which is colocation/hardware expenses.

Point is that you can't extrapolate recovery times from the commercial sector to Ao3 recovery times.

In fact, it was 18th century schoolteachers who invented the "rule" that it wasn't acceptable usage.

These same losers also invented the "rules" that you can't end a sentence with a preposition, you can't split an infinitive, and you can't start a sentence with a conjunction.

These are all fake rules that were just poorly obfuscated attempts to make English follow Latin grammar (bc Latin was allegedly a "perfect" language)

Jigo lays a trap that sacrifices hundreds of his own men in order to kill a god.

I'd put both of them in the villain category. Before the battle, I wouldn't put either of them in that category, but the climax really makes them out to be awful people. Eboshi in particular hides behind smiles and buying up the contracts of prostitutes (to make them her slaves) and helping lepers until the climax when she completely abandons them, throwing them to the wolves in service of money.

now I have kids, so they get my teaching attention instead. And I don't touch Twitter.

It goes to your trash can/recycle bin for a while. That's literally what it's for: to guard against accidental deletes. Very few people accidentally delete files from their computer's drive anymore. The only time people do this in 2026 is accidentally formatting an SD card that had their camera's pictures on it or something.

i thought it was richard matthew stallman

I get that this is hn and we're paranoid about everything, but come on, what CVE is a threat to joe sixpack here where he should drop $2K on a new machine to protect against it?

file sync is backup against the things most people have to deal with (hardware breaking, theft, house fire, residential lightning strike)

authorized repair shop says 4 days to fix it and it's my only laptop, so i go without :(

State agency resources are finite. I know my small town had to jack up property rates like crazy this year just to make its slim budget (it's the largest source of revenue, and the 2d is sales tax, which is unfortunately in the toilet thanks to several ruinous federal policies causing people to spend less and fewer people to come as tourists).

If we got FOIA requests, lol, it would take years to respond and would be so expensive. We don't even have a city attorney position. It's contracted out to a law firm because it's cheaper.

Some big FOIA request would cost us an insane amount of money through no fault of our own. Our voters don't want to pay higher taxes, so that's the state of things.

Yes, and having been the counsel that does the review, it can be painstakingly laborious.

Also they didn't get access to part 1/n. They got access to part 1/?. And then 2/?. And then 3/?.