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mr_toad04/24/20253 repliesview on HN

Oil is usually considered fungible.

Fungible is a word that sounds weird and I don’t get to say often enough.


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praptak04/24/2025

To the first approximation, yes. But there are different standards for oil and they trade at different prices (e.g. Brent is more expensive than Urals).

kqr04/24/2025

If you are looking for more opportunities, recall that the difference between entities and value objects in domain-driven design is that value objects are fungible.

ghaff04/24/2025

Like commodity I suppose it also gets used to describe things that may not be 100% fungible but may be pretty close depending on the details and the circumstances.