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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by twic »

r0m4n0 wrote: post #117

Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

> V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter

Hold on, hold on: when you say 'spacecraft', do you mean complete space vehicles, which would be 336414, or space satellites, communications, which would be 334220?

http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by JonnieCache »

sambe wrote: post #220
JonnieCache wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's good in general to be careful of the "this is what I think people are like" genre of blogging. Especially when it's presented with such certainty. See also: slate star codex, TLP. At least those two are working psychiatrists. Venkat Rao is just a guy with some opinions that he has retrospectively derived from his own career progress, as far as I can tell. It smacks of rationalisation.

Did TLP just completely stop after being outed or is there something still happening with a book?

In my imagination he went completely insane trying to write the porn book.

If you want a good continuation, check out Jordan Peterson, who has a much wider framework into which TLP's somewhat narrow worldview can be fitted. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist, as well as a professor. This video summarises a lot of his ideas, but they are fully explained and justified in his university courses, which are all on the channel. "Personality" is a first year course, and "Maps of Meaning" is I think taken by third or fourth year psychology students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOw0eJ84d8

(You're probably best off ignoring the culture war drama he's currently embroiled in. Unfortunately the youtube algorithm has now placed him firmly in the alt-right nexus because of this, so his videos might shit up your reccommendations. This is not a reflection of his ideas, far from it.)

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by labster »

MollyRealized wrote: post #192

TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.net/

I'm a cofounder of All The Tropes, a noncommercial advertising-free fork of TV Tropes: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page

Because we don't have advertising, we can take a low censorship approach while protecting your privacy. We'd love to have you come on board if you have many hours that you're not using.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by tghw »

Reading medical study meta-analysis published by The Cochrane Collaboration[0]. There's some fascinating results that run counter to current medical advice.

For example, "Vaccines to prevent influenza in healthy adults" concluded, in part: "Vaccination shows no appreciable effect on working days lost or hospitalisation."[1]

[0] http://www.cochrane.org/evidence [1] http://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-to-prevent-inf...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by avip »

arglebarnacle wrote: post #133
r0m4n0 wrote: post #117

Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

Some more: W2202XA Walked into lamppost, initial encounter W34111A Accidental malfunction of paintball gun, initial encounter W5629XA Other contact with orca, initial encounter Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter V657XXA Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, initial…

>Other contact with orca

This one calls for serious investigation. Dirk gently style.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by Natanael_L »

Pigo wrote: post #123
pitaa wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who personally had business dealings with a company/person mentioned in one of those stories, I can say that the story perfectly matched the personas of those involved, which has me absolutely convinced that it actually happened (at least in some form). Extrapolating this to the other stories on the site, I have always assumed that they are in reality more truth than embellishment.

That makes me happy to hear. After visiting /r/thatHappened you just stop believing anything funny or amazing is real online.

Obligatory /r/nothingeverhappens

Or to stay on topic, /r/talesfromretail and its friends

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