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

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Post by fapjacks »

labster wrote: post #274
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.

Awesome! I had seen AllTheTropes before but never understood what it was. I'm always a fan of noncommercial ad-free forks.

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Post by ajmurmann »

brightball wrote: post #159
jjordan wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow, not to distract but my mind is completely blown by how completely unusable that website is on mobile while not obviously broken. The sharing widget makes it completely impossible to read.

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Post by projektfu »

drdrey wrote: post #334
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…

Z62891 Sibling rivalry Y93G2 Activity, grilling and smoking food Y9286 Slaughter house as the place of occurrence of the external cause Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part X962XXA Assault by letter bomb, initial encounter X05XXXA Exposure to ignition or melting of nightwear, initial encounter

Sibling rivalry is a serious condition where your young child is trying to harm or murder your new baby.

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Post by nostrebored »

gbog wrote: post #355
oldmanjay wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The codes are used to make the reimbursement system complicated enough that it can be gamed. That's the general purpose of impenetrable bureaucracy.

Actually it's worth reminding that it's the opposite that is true. Bureaucracy, paperwork, are the only known ways to reduce gaming and enforce equal access to justice. O boy I hate paperwork, but it's there for a reason, a good reason.

That is the initial purpose. Unfortunately bureaucrats tend to value other bureaucrats highly. It's a self perpetuating bureaucracy machine.

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Post by prefect42 »

avip wrote: post #279
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…

>Other contact with orca This one calls for serious investigation. Dirk gently style.

"Other contact with orca", whatever that means, sounds slightly naughty.

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Post by eseehausen »

exolymph wrote: post #146
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/

"I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup" is one of the greatest pieces of political writing ever. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...

It's interesting how much this reads like footnotes to Derrida , especially in the beginning (other cliffnotes here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#SH7c or http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ce/s6403/jacques_derrida.pdf if you feel like reading the original). It's nice to see ideas move from so theoretical that LW and associated communities would likely dismiss to digestible forms like this. It gives me hope for communication amongst outgroups that are pretty virulently opposed to each other (Continental theorists and let's say the vanguard of popular "rationalism"), mostly due to their proximity.

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Post by CPLX »

mSparks wrote: post #294
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.

Probably just a hair less unlikely than you had previously thought. Who can forget this early YouTube classic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLbtltuB5g

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