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

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Post by ReAzem » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:15 PM UTC

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…

Erm, there is a website for W2202XA: http://w2202xa.com/

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

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Post by dates » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

Wikipedia goes on and on and on and on. Here is a good facebook group with pointers to interesting pages I may not have found otherwise: https://www.facebook.com/groups/coolfreakswikipediaclub/

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

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Post by nawtacawp » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

ReAzem wrote: post #251

arglebarnacle wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Erm, there is a website for W2202XA: http://w2202xa.com/

but... why did you know that?

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

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Post by khedoros1 » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

frabcus wrote: post #197

furyg3 wrote: post #167

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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...

I don't think that it would be used to decide whether an incident was covered or not, just to categorize it for statistical purposes or something.

It's the kind of data that might be used to say "shark attacks are up 23% on the US east coast over the last three years".

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

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Post by ghurtado » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

tiglionabbit wrote: post #248

protomyth wrote: post #203

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Am I missing a table since I can find the orca thing, but it doesn't have a listing for bear. Please tell me bears are a bigger danger than orcas? // holy crud, the comment section is now a rabbit hole - good job karim

Yeah, bears are not specifically mentioned. You'd have to file it by W55.8: contact with other mammal.

You guys are either pulling my leg, or I just entered a Volgon message board by mistake.

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

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Post by shezi » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #23

Slate 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/

There is also the book that he is writing, which is weird and wonderful: http://unsongbook.com/

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

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Post by drivingmenuts » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

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…

Those are oddly specific.

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

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Post by delecti » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:29 PM UTC

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/

SCP was a great rabbit hole, until I took some psychedelics after I'd been reading it during my downtime at work the previous few weeks. I spent much of the trip seeing the face from SCP-87 [1] bulging through the inside of my eyelids.

I haven't been able to enjoy browsing it since.

[1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 (bottomless staircase below a school)

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

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Post by cloudjacker » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:34 PM UTC

ReAzem wrote: post #251

arglebarnacle wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Erm, there is a website for W2202XA: http://w2202xa.com/

$10/yr well spent

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

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Post by cloudjacker » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

brightball wrote: post #159

jjordan wrote: post #131

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What are some of your favorite "There is no way that's real" moments you came across in your studies?

I really don't know where to start for a quick HN response. There are just so many things that depends heavily on context around them. The economics, for me, are the most interesting parts but it takes a lot of information to put things together to explain. If I'm going to cite a single thing, it would have to be the Cherokee Declaration of Causes. As a single document providing context around events at the time it's…

I found the economics of the Confederation extremely fascinating. Given the sanctions and unlikely future growth of the slavery sector, there wouldn't have even needed to be a land war and it would have collapsed in a few more years on its own.

Basically, the model of the union government's sanctions today.

Wish that perspective was in my primary education. I feel like I only learned about generals and battles.