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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by frabcus on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:43PM (#12782139)
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...

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by khedoros1 on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:20PM (#12783015)
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".

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by DashRattlesnake on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:45PM (#12783931)
It would be interesting to read a design document (or post-hoc technical analysis) that enumerates all the purposes that medical billing codes are used for. Maybe it would explain the easily-mocked craziness.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by Jill_the_Pill on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:40PM (#12782674)
Orca is a "killer" whale -- you were duly warned. ;)
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