Is Threads the one by the Twitter founder, or the one by Facebook? Or the one that's encrypted? Or is it about Twitter, Twitter threads? Or is it a Whatsapp thing??
Back in my day you got predicted grades, went to an interview, got an offer (or didn't get, but that was rare, the interview would however sometimes result in a lower than standard offer) then got the grades, or didn't, but holding a cascade of offers down actual grades was common/recommended.
The UK and US have very different systems. In the UK, all students have already specialised into A levels (only studying four subjects) before applying to university.
In the US, I think it works differently: some students may have done some AP classes, but these aren't universal and don't represent the same degree of specialisation as A levels.
(1) In the final two years of secondary school (16/17 to 18) you choose a set of 3 or 4 subjects to study for A levels. This is usually done with a specific course at university in mind. For example, someone aiming for Chemistry might study Maths, Chemistry, and Physics. Some people also add Further Maths (if they're aiming for Maths at a top university, this adds things like group theory, differential equations) or a language (e.g. if you already know French, it's not all that difficult to do French A-level too).
(2) Before your final exams, you apply to universities and they have some process for giving you an offer. This process isn't standardised. Some universities have pre-interview exams (e.g. Oxford), some have extra exams you take alongside your A-level exams (e.g. to do Maths at Cambridge, you have to take STEP exams which are...super hard). My interview process for Maths at Oxford was pretty stressful, I had seven interviews, all very technical, at various colleges. Some I no doubt bombed, some I did okay in. I also had a phone interview with the college that ended up getting me.
(3) You get some offer, either conditional (get these grades and we'll let you in) or unconditional (you got in, grades don't matter). My offer was to just get all top grades so I really had to grind studying and was super stressed on results day.
(4) You pick two unis to go with. Usually one primary and one backup.
(5) You do your exams, then get results. If you met your offer, great! If not, you go into clearing where you can maybe go into a "leftover" place at some uni somewhere.
(6) You go to uni and study something. You got a place on a Maths course, you study Maths. I'm mentioning this because it works differently in the US.
There are pros and cons to this process. Specialising early means the baseline for a Maths course at uni is higher than in the US. But because you're asking 15 year olds to decide what they want to study for the next 5-6 years, lots of people probably pick the wrong thing. And if you're not good at Maths and don't study Maths at A-level, you're just locked out of anything STEM e.g. Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Computer Science, all require a Maths A-level. So you get a lot of kids making poor decisions they later regret and can't reverse.
Edit: I'm really not joking. The amount of resources - people, time, enterprise - pumped into front end frameworks is quite horrendous when most applications are CRUD, and most others are CRUD 80% of the time.
A glut of corporate devices coming to a 2nd hand electronics market near you soon. Or eBay.
Which I love, as I enjoy near perfect condition slightly older ThinkPads for $200. Though I don't buy many, and have only recently 'upgraded' from an X220 to an X250.
But. Why? What is the pressing functionality in Windows 11 that past versions do not have. I get the need for a newer phone if someone really wants a better camera or a special purpose app, or just has to have many many apps that run all the time and need extra cores and memory because of the users' habits. I get it for servers where energy's a big part of the cost function. These are hardware needs. But not software needs. We're already mature without hitting the next tipping point which isn't now. MS's motive must be alternate.
Do some exercise like situps or skipping early in the morning; have a pullup bar across a door frame to use when the kids are brushing their teeth, and some pushup handles. Much more time effective than a gym unless you're really into something in particular.
Do whatever they like in the evening, get engrossed, forget forgetting your work, forget yourself. Their time is fascinating.
Edit: Get an early night. Enjoy doing even more tomorrow, today's done with.
Why Singapore and not, say, Wyoming that has no corporate tax.
Personal tax isn't paid if you're not tax resident, and OP seems to be resident in Thailand so will have to follow relevant laws there.
If ASEAN free trade's of benefit, perhaps. Or if going for a Singapore ID card then having a profitable business might be worth it. Or access to SE Asia finance. Outside these, Wyoming!
But it's not just about tax. For privacy and having a Delaware-like specific business litigation process should you ever need it, Nevada's advantageous over Wyoming without needing much more in tax. Then for access to finance, a location that'll let you open a bank account for the business can be important (this might depend on US state). So there's a bit of YMMV, but nothing an Ask HN can't fix!
Is Threads the one by the Twitter founder, or the one by Facebook? Or the one that's encrypted? Or is it about Twitter, Twitter threads? Or is it a Whatsapp thing??