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

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Post by avip »

furyg3 wrote: post #167
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…

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!).

The only semi-plausible explanation is some weird insurance plan crafted for sea-world (et-al) staff. Neither Orcas nor (other) Dolphins were ever recorded to attack human beings out of captivity anyhow.

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

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Post by ignorantguy »

cessor wrote: post #262

I enjoy rabbit holes with much less meaning, such as: http://z0r.de/ or http://www.theuselessweb.com/ The last one is great. I once discovered this gem: http://www.pointerpointer.com/

i can't stop laughing.... this site is really a gem.

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Post by brianzelip »

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/

What a weird web page and url.

Looks like it was just thrown up as text in html, but there's a container, so maybe someone actually applied CSS to that little tidbit?

Nope, a blockquote inside a blockquote. Interesting html-only container!

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

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Post by mSparks »

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…

The best has to be V97.33XD Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter

Just in case you survived.

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

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Post by kirrent »

pitaa wrote: post #116
Pigo wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always questioned whether his stuff is embellished, or complete fiction, but it doesn't stop me from laughing every time I read the story where he tries to pay with a picture of a spider.

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.

I'm not sure to what degree they're embellished but they do have some basis in reality. I didn't realise that until he shared on facebook that Simon, the subject of many jokes in his stories but someone he'd gotten closer to over time, had killed himself. It was a bit of a rude awakening.

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

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Post by btown »

digikata wrote: post #202
wl wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be some misunderstanding what is meant by "subsequent encounter" in this context. These are codes for office visits. "Subsequent encounter" means that a patient is not seeing a physician for the first time about their injury. There are also codes for "initial encounter."

So initial vs subsequent encounter are completely different codes? Wouldn't this approach double the number of codes? Why wouldn't this be some other field of data associated with the form instead of mixing it up in the diagnostic 'topic'. I know nothing about medical diagnosis codes.

My understanding is that codes are simply a lookup into the structured version of the above document; they aren't "parseable" any more than an MD5 hash is parseable, but they uniquely identify a combination of conditions. As other posters have noted, the complexity required to implement that lookup table is an intentional barrier to entry.
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