Devendra Singh Mahra

In America, you are prey. And corporations are your predator. Businesses, more than ever, exists to turn the weakest consumers among you into money. Your health, your happiness, or their honor be damned. If it’s legal, if the CEO has plausible deniability, they’ll do it for dollars. That is the culture today among businesses. This is why every day, another business installs a “25% 30% 35% - pick one” tip screen. Why you have to call to cancel the subscription. Why you have to read every ingredient list with a magnifying glass to make sure you’re not eating poison. America’s business culture is: “If you let us screw you, that’s not on us. That’s on you.” “All you need to do is read the 69 page contract, and you’ll be fine.” And as much as I hate that, especially as a fellow business owner, I kind of sympathize too. Running a restaurant or cafe is not easy and it’s thankless work. People who work in pointless highly regarded industries make the money, not them, even though what they do is extremely important. So they install that “25% 30% 35% - pick one” tip screen. And it sucks. In Europe, they don’t do that, as much. We mock their regulations, especially on this website, but they do sometimes get things right. I’ll eat EU-certified food over American any day. And as bad as some of their regulations are, they’re still better executed than California’s. And something else: Those “europoors” as we call them. They’re not prey. When a baker adds sunflower oil to their long breadsticks, the French simply say “this is not a baguette.” Culturally, amongst consumers there is no tolerance for putting an asterisk next to butter* *actually it’s margarine and we dipped it in xantham gum What is xantham gum? I don’t know but if it’s not banned in Europe no self respecting European will put anything with it in their mouths. Europeans have a cultural defense to the predation perpetrated by American business (“for shareholders” because to not take care of them, well that just wouldn’t be right). When I went to China in my early 20s I’d go out to eat with Chinese people and they’d tell the waiters “don’t cook with too much oil”. I had never heard that before in America. This was back when China was way behind America, but yet, the people, they had defences to predatory bullshit that Americans never acquired. I thought Pam sprays were the healthier alternative. You probably think that if you’re reading this in the USA. When I moved to small town Texas I was told I needed to try the local delicacy. The “frito(tm) pie” It was salty ground beef with Fritos mixed into it. America is the only place in the world where the local fare needs a trademark for fear of lawsuit by the not so benevolent Frito Lays corporation. When the internet, YouTube, became a thing, we said that it would democratize information. And it sort of did. Everything from academic papers to how to videos on losing weight are available. But available is not the same as distributed. And there’s hardly no incentive to distribute them. But there is an incentive to distribute Coca Cola. So that’s what you see, ads for things that will make other people rich and you sick, unless you pay. Because you are prey. And America is a pay to play country. You must pay to not be prey. And it’s hard work, but you got to do it. And that’s the point of this post. It’s not to dunk on our bizarre uniquely American corporate consumerist culture. It’s to tell you wake up and protect yourself because no one else will. Maybe one day we can change the culture. Or maybe we won’t, because this is the way things are meant to be. America is just a place where you get rich. Or die trying.

Don't start inference engineering before knowing these OS pre-reqs > Virtual memory > Pages & page tables > Memory allocation & fragmentation > Processes vs threads > Inter-process communication (IPC) > Shared memory & message queues > Workers & worker pools > Scheduling & queues > Distributed systems: rank & world size > Memory pools > Free-block queues > Dynamic memory allocation

Anyone who grew up before smartphones - what did you do when you were bored ?

Everyone is debating the paper leak. Almost nobody is debating the queue. 40% of graduates under 25 are unemployed. Graduates are two-thirds of India's unemployed. 12 million young Indians join the workforce every year. The anger on the streets isn't about one exam. It's a generation discovering that the exam they bet their childhood on leads to a queue, not a job. And here's the hard truth: you cannot exam-reform your way out of a jobs shortage. A fairer queue is still a queue. This generation needs a third door. Today a young Indian has two imagined futures: sarkari naukri or private job. Building something of your own is the third, and right now it's mostly reserved for kids with networks and family money. After 17 years in this ecosystem, I've written a full implementable policy blueprint to change that. A National Entrepreneurship Mission. One door, one entrepreneur ID, one journey from "I want to do something" to "I built something." District idea banks for graduates who don't know what to build. A mentor and an AI co-pilot for every founder. Every scattered govt fund on one spine. 10 lakh enterprises in 5 years. Minimum 40-50 lakh jobs created by this generation instead of demanding for it. Rollout in 15 months, because every piece already exists. For the short read: yourstory.com/2026/08/nation… For the full recommendation: yourstory.com/cs/uploads/Bui… Do read and do share 🙏 #shurukar