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Amazon's Lost Tribe
- forinti 15y agoActually, it's not that "Indian law" applies there, it's that the indians are not considered capable to stand trial. If a white man were to kill the reporter, the law would certainly apply, no matter where they were in Brazil.
- fredzed2 15y agoSadly, this contact for the sake of television will probably be the death sentence of the tribe, as many such uncontacted tribes don't have resistance to diseases like the flu, measles, chicken pox, pneumonia, etc., which can end up killing over 50% of the tribe. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-tribes-the-threats http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-t...
- jcmoscon 15y agoDo you realize that this is a hoax? That tribe is known for decades. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-grann/the-truth-about-the-lost_b_172910.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-grann/the-truth-about-th...
- julesallen 15y agoBefore I read the article I assumed this was all about the hung EC2 instances in the Great Virginia Datacenter Outage. I need to get out of the house more.
- super-serial 15y agoYeah, I was hoping it was about "tribes" of developers leaving EC2. If I wanted to read stuff like this I'd go back to reddit.
- rjbond3rd 15y agoIt seems to me these journalists just wanted a bit of reality TV. Now the tribe's culture and language will (presumably) be wiped out, and they'll be absorbed into the mainstream. What a careless, thoughtless thing to do.