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So? It's not for all plastics, there are so many different kinds and they're all different! This is basically only used in food containers, not products like yo
by battery_cowboy 6y ago
So? It's not for all plastics, there are so many different kinds and they're all different! This is basically only used in food containers, not products like your TV or phone case.
Also, that's a false argument. We shouldn't dumb things down to incorrectness just so people understand them. It's not hard to look up 'PET plastic', and I see enough complex article titles on HN that I don't think that applicable to our community.
- eloff 6y agoHow's that a false argument? It's reasonable to avoid jargon in communication where possible - if you want to communicate to a wider audience. In this case I don't think it adds much. Once you click through you get the details. But the mods seem to agree with you, so I'm in the minority opinion it seems.
- battery_cowboy 6y ago"PET" isn't jargon, it's a designation/name, much like "relational database" or "Phoenix framework". It's a name and type of a plastic, and to replace it with "plastic" alone makes the headline wildly inaccurate, like if I said "this new medicine cures cancer in 90 percent of patients" but it was just about some rare cancer that only 100 people get a year and couldn't be applied to other cancers. Depolemerize is jargon, admittedly.