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Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#192TV 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/
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#193Browsing 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…
Sadly, my first job out of college involved these codes after we wrote a rural health grant. The money and pain that went into that thing still wakes me up at night. The codes (and the cost of acquiring the "book" along with filling out the forms) gave me fits and actually made me think heavily about calling in sick for work each morning in the shower.
There must be a code for that...
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#1941) There is a Wiki for almost everything you can imagine. I am pretty sure you can spend whole weekens just clicking around in some random GoT, LotR or Harry Potter wiki 1.1) My current favorite is reading about the Warhammer 40k universe: ( http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki and http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page ) 2) reddit.com is a never ending source of entertainment if you know how to u…
Erowid is great. What really makes it special is all the trip reports for things you've never heard of, or heard of but can't believe someone would voluntarily try, or heard of but never occurred to you that someone might consider it a drug (#2: datura; #3: catnip).
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#195I posted a list of them a while ago. For several years I was interested in alternative worldviews -- grand sweeping theories of reality. Here's my list: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ Enjoy :)
Biblical Christianity is straight-up iconoclastic. Give that a try.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#196If you start looking up everything you eat on http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/, you know it's gone too far.
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#197Browsing 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…
I don't even... why in the world would it be important for a doctor to differentiate being struck by a dolphin or struck by orca (side note: orcas are dolphins!).
This was puzzling me (as a UK citizen). A clue in another comment hinted that it is about insurance.
Still not sure why a dolphin would be covered in a policy but not an orca...
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#198Wards' Wiki: http://wiki.c2.com/
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#199Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ , for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics. Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Can confirm. I found slatestarcodex and immediately spent > an hour a day reading through every post he had written over the past several years.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#200Browsing 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…
I don't even... why in the world would it be important for a doctor to differentiate being struck by a dolphin or struck by orca (side note: orcas are dolphins!).
These are diagnosis codes, so it wraps up to national-level reporting - i.e. 35 people were injured by dolphins this year.
Also, insurance companies get crazy nit-picky with what types of treatment they'll cover for diagnoses. There is an entire industry around scrubbing claims and making sure treatment meets the diagnosis codes.