#fiscalgenius

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-10-21

🚨 Attention, fiscal geniuses! 🤓 Follow this riveting saga of someone breaking free from Heroku's golden handcuffs by using a calculator and a shared server. 💡 Because nothing says 'innovation' like rediscovering basic math and buying a cheaper thing. 🤑
disco.cloud/blog/how-idealisto

Anne Fausto Sterlingfaustosterling@mastodon.world
2025-02-11

This pretty funny.

"The penny’s demise creates a void in our lowest-value transactions, and guess who gets called in for backup? —the nickel, which, costs nearly 14 cents to produce.
The government loses more money making nickels than it ever did on pennies..."

open.substack.com/pub/closerto

#makepenniesnotnickels #fiscalgenius

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