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The US capital markets are closer to Putin's Russia than to free markets.

Historically, listing rules asked: "How much money did you make last year, and do you fit our standard corporate governance box?"

Today, NASDAQ's rules ask: "Do you have the massive market capitalisation, sufficient institutional public float, and transparent liquidity to ensure fair and orderly trading?"

Here are the obvious ones:

1. Free float - Every company that intended to list was required to have at least 20% free float.

2. Index weights were based on the free float.

3. Time before inclusion into the Indices (min 12 months) now 15 trading days

4. Lockup period - minimum 12 months up to 24 months - not 180 days.

I wish people would understand that if America had a functioning criminal justice system, no one would have heard Elon Musk nor Donald Trump.

I have a 16-year-old daughter, but when she was in Day Care, one of the Chinese kids wore a Ramones t-shirt. I was so surprised that I asked the parents if they had ever heard of the Ramones. They had no idea what I was talking about.

In Australia, Kmart (Kmart is very popular here) sells lots of retro rock t-shirts. Often from tours that occurred in the 1970s eg Elon John 1974 tour or Led Zeppelin etc.

The figures quoted are way out of date. Solar is already USD 0.11 per Watt and has been for over a year.

Solar is scalable. The cheapest system 10W with a powerbank and phone charger and 3 x 3W LED lights as about USD 20. Next level is more lights and a fan and the high end is a TV and fan powered by solar.

I am not very good with graphics. Yesterday, I used nano Banana to create an image for the front cover of a report. It took about 5 minutes. Normally, I would have spent at least an hour and still would not have gotten as good an image.

The Gemini models save me about an hour a day.

I have tried to use Blender and have given up several times. My only constant use of Blend is creating animated titles in Ophenshot.

Anything that simplifies using advanced tools is useful.

Has anyone compared the HarmonyOS NEXT to Debian Hurd?

HarmonyOS NEXT is the world's most widely used microkernel system, reportedly used on approximately 800 million systems.