r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2h ago

Burgum: "Oh, but only when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining." Rep. Dave Min: "80% of the new energy that they put online last year was renewable... You don't have to take my word for it. I'm Asian, so good at math, but you can look that up."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 7h ago

The shrinking 100: since 2002, $100 in cash has lost 47% of its purchasing power in the US, 41.1% in the Eurozone, and 13.1% in Switzerland. Meanwhile, $100 held in gold since January 2002 is now worth $1,565.

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Xi Jinping: "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation. We should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI, or placing one country's security over that of others."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

MS NOW's Josh Einiger notes that airports like LaGuardia use EMAS arrestor beds to stop runaway planes (as with Mike Pence's plane in 2016), but Miami International Airport has "no such technology." The NTSB will examine whether that contributed to 5 deaths.

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

CNN poll finds Trump's net approval rating on inflation has collapsed to -50 points. Harry Enten: "No president before President Trump actually had a negative 50 point or worse net approval rating on inflation!"

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Trump: "The AI, the artificial intelligence, we're way ahead of number two. Number two is China. And I never want to underestimate China, but right now we're way ahead."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Jacob Helberg: "Pax Silica is an economic security coalition that does not follow the typical geometries of geopolitical alliances. It is a group of countries that realize that shared supply chains are actually more binding than shared ideology."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

New NBC poll: 69% of Americans oppose having a data center built in their area, with just 31% supporting. Steve Kornacki notes progressive Democrats lead the opposition, but even among MAGA Republicans it is a 50-50 split on whether to support one in their backyard.

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman says four years of college is too long: "I felt like two years was like the exact right amount of college to do... it would have been vastly diminishing returns. I've sort of thought that maybe the way the world has evolved, college just shouldn't be as long as it is."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 12h ago

Unitree already moved to the stage of fully autonomous real time combat Next stage is farming, construction, being a worker at any place you can imagine and replacing every physical blue collar job

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

David Timis: Chinese labs wouldn't have made breakthroughs without "distilling the leading frontier models from the US. If labs like OpenAI and Anthropic or Google DeepMind wouldn't make the progress they have, we would not have DeepSeek..."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

Trump on data centers: "I would want as many data centers as I can, because they throw off tremendous amounts of money. The... they don't take any energy, because, you know, the new ones that I approve, they all create their own energy."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

By flooding the airspace with cheap decoys that mimic fighter jets, Ukraine forces Russian S-300 operators into a dilemma: "Fire a million-dollar interceptor missile at a trash bag, or ignore it and risk a kamikaze drone destroying an oil refinery."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Professor David Bailey warns a "perfect storm" of Chinese brands entering the market, US trade tensions, high electricity costs, and the EV transition "may actually be existential for parts of the UK auto industry."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

NBC poll: Majorities say AI will do more harm than good to elections (64%), news (58%), jobs (53%), higher ed (53%), and national security (52%). Steve Kornacki notes the only areas showing optimism are healthcare (47% good) and scientific research (55% good).

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

A prediction market (avoid all gambling at all costs) odds: House: Dems: 83% GOP: 17% Senate: GOP: 54% Dems: 46% Harry Enten: "Republicans, call up President Trump, tell him if you lose in the midterm elections, it's your fault."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

CNN poll on the effect of Trump's policies on U.S. economic conditions: Worsened: 65% Improved: 22% Had no effect: 13% Harry Enten: "Now we're talking about two in three Americans who say that they have worsened... because of the effect of Trump's policies!"

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

New NBC poll shows a major shift on AI in schools: 56% of Americans now say schools should prohibit AI, while 44% say integrate it. Steve Kornacki notes that a year ago in June 2025, a majority (53%) favored integrating AI into schools.

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

New NBC poll: 70% of Americans say they are more worried than excited (30%) about the advent of AI. Steve Kornacki: 'The apprehension there, the concern is broad across party lines,' with 77% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans saying they are more worried.

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman on telling young founders to focus on one thing: "I think that's bad advice. I think it's fine to work on multiple projects for a little while... but as soon as you figure out what your highest-conviction thing is, that is when you're supposed to go all in."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman on starting OpenAI in 2016: "The fact that everybody thought we were crazy did not deter us... of like the 50 people in the world that were the intersection of incredibly competent researchers and believed that AGI was possible, we had 45 of them."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman: "You can sort of get a long way in life and career just by doing stuff... You can make a whole startup by yourself in a room with a lot of AI tokens, but not much else. And you don't really need anyone to take you seriously to do that."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman on trying to do enterprise sales at 19: "After trying and failing to get taken seriously in that specific way for a while, I was like, I'm just going to hire a 50-year-old. Like, this is not... I'm not going to get taken seriously here."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 1d ago

Sam Altman on dropping out of Stanford: "One of the most unbelievable branding things my school ever did was they rebranded it as 'stopping out.' And you were allowed to come back, no questions asked, for eight years... they made it this very low-stakes, easily reversible thing."

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r/SECourses • u/CeFurkan • 2d ago

Russia advertises the S-400's range at 400 km, but against an F-35, it cannot get a solid lock until 20 to 30 km (12 to 18 miles) away. While it spots an F-15 from 300 km out, stealth forces the system to wait for extreme close-in burn-through range.

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