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The Reddit dedicated to this showed there was an article in the huffpo and a Twitter account (something like @fyrefraud) that have been screaming for months tha
by alistproducer2 9y ago
The Reddit dedicated to this showed there was an article in the huffpo and a Twitter account (something like @fyrefraud) that have been screaming for months that this festival was an obvious scam. If you know what to look for, a lot of outcomes are not some giant mystery. In isolation, human behavior is actually quite predictable; only in the aggregate does it get difficult to predict.
Edit: I went through my browser history and the Twitter handle is correct.the article was actually on BuzzFeed but it's been scrubbed since last night. The author's name is Madeline Scott and the title started with "is fyre festival the next big music event or..." Maybe there's a cahe of the article somewhere?
- oomkiller 9y agoArchive of article: http://archive.is/ts6kN http://archive.is/ts6kN
- alistproducer2 9y agoNice! Thanks. How did u find that?
- oomkiller 9y agoCopied and pasted the quote into Google, with quotation marks. It was on the front page but not the top result. Wayback Machine has it too, but this archive.is (A site I've never used before) is a much higher quality archive.
- retube 9y agoBoth Sky broadband and 02 mobile are blocking this domain saying it's dodgy
- philippnagel 9y agoWhere are you located (approximately ofc.)?
- unixhero 9y agoUK
- unixhero 9y agoIt isn't.
- Buge 9y agoI've been using archive.is for years. Of course if you actually want to be sure you're visiting the real site, you should prepend the url with https .
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- vertex-four 9y agoI really doubt they're blocking it saying it's dodgy, more likely that it's a way to get around other blocks - do you have the "content filter" (Government censorship) enabled?
- radicalbyte 9y agoDude, you really need to use a VPN. That's the create firewall of Great Britain at work. They have to block archive.is because it's very so slightly socialist..
- regularfry 9y agoOr hop to an ISP that doesn't filter. They do exist.
- vertex-four 9y agoOr, y'know, disable your filter. Sky's configuration panel is here - https://broadbandshield.sky.com/ https://broadbandshield.sky.com/ - O2's, iirc, requires you to go to an O2 shop with your ID.
- regularfry 9y agoHeh, small world. I work for Sky, and my team very recently took over technical responsibility for that exact site. Nevertheless, it's worth knowing that outside the big 4, there are ISPs which on principle don't even require that step. People can fall into the trap of believing that all UK consumer internet access has a ThinkOfTheChildren filter in place by default, but that's just not true.
- vertex-four 9y agoSure, AAISP don't even provide a filter iirc, though are a lot more expensive than some of the more mainstream ISPs. I think Zen Internet don't either, but again, expensive.
- joatmon-snoo 9y agoThe Google webarchive link might work better: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OLBvHo0YS4oJ:https://www.buzzfeed.com/madelinescott/is-fyre-festival-the-next-big-music-event-or-the-n-1sohb+&cd=1&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&utm_term=.li5v4Q6W2#.nl3gErP4Y https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OLBvHo...
- majani 9y agoFrom what I gather, the founders were plowing ahead despite clear signs of failure in store. Looking at it that way, this is not a scam, but instead a story of the less glamorous side of entrepreneurship. It's unfortunate that a proper learning lesson has been turned into a laughing stock, but I guess that is also part of the lesson.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- yabatopia 9y agoDid you read the BuzzFeed article?
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago>> In isolation, human behavior is actually quite predictable; only in the aggregate does it get difficult to predict. It's the opposite, isn't it? You can predict what a group of people will do on average, but you can't know whether a specific person picked out of that group will be average, or an outlier.
- Clownshoesms 9y agoThat's what I was thinking. Might have Hari Seldon's psychohistory on the brain.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> It's the opposite, isn't it? No, its neither. Or both. Whatever. That is, there are fairly narrow circumstances where, with sufficient information about an individual, individual behavior is well predictable and fairly narrow circumstances where group behavior is predictable, but neither is actually all that predictable reliably (there's lots of people trying to do both, and the notable successes -- which involve lots of luck -- can make it look like either is more reliably predictable than it is.)