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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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