Nicholas Maguire

Choose life

[Robert @UtdRobert]

Really good thing he only elbowed Spence in the face and his hand didn’t brush through Spence’s hair otherwise he could’ve been sent off for violent conduct.

[TheIrishWatchdog @WatchdogTh96012]

He is so false it is nauseating. These promo videos are all heavily edited and always in the affluent areas. In approximately 95% of the country he would not be welcome. #ResignHarris #SimonHarris #GaslightingHarris

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.

That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.

That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.

People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

[Caoimhín 🇮🇪 @Caoimhinn55]

"Khalid Ahmed, of Ealing, west London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday after being charged overnight with gun charges...."
The Media in this country are scum running a headline like that... 🤬

[Niamh Costello @niamh_journo]

I genuinely can't tell you how many times I've watched this. I'm obsessed. I love it so much. Well done Connor Kleyn you've it nailed! #smicks

[Oisín Ó Murc @Oismur]

For the day that's in it, no one has ever been hotter in the Dáil.

It's crazy that some people are more annoyed by the forecourt earning 7c instead of 5c than the govt taking over a euro from Diesel.

[The Laymans Take @thelaymanstake]

Just this week we've had

1. Brazilian rapist charged.
2. Congolese child abuser given no jail.
3. Nigerian CP users given no jail.
4. Video of Middle Easterner smashing womans face still on streets
5. African in court for attempted rape.

"No link between immigration and crime"

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Wait till you see Ashley Cole 😭😭

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Jim Simons
>born 1938 in Brookline, Massachusetts
>shark eyes, warm smile, galaxy brain
>age 3, realize numbers double infinitely
>age 4, obsessed with Zeno's paradox
>parents: "what is wrong with this kid"

1950s:
>MIT at 17
>graduate in 3 years
>too easy
>Berkeley PhD in 2 years
>thesis is 20 pages
>advisor doesn't know if it's genius or insane

1964:
>join the NSA
>job: crack Soviet codes
>coldest war, hardest puzzles
>you're very good at this

1967:
>write a letter to the New York Times
>call Vietnam "a stupid war"
>NSA: "you can't do that"
>you: "just did"
>fired immediately

1968:
>become math professor at Stony Brook
>age 30, youngest department chair ever
>do actual math
>invent Chern-Simons theory
>physicists use it for decades
>you treat it like a footnote

1978:
>get bored of academia
>everyone says markets are random
>you: "what if that's bullshit"
>start trading with math

1982:
>found Renaissance Technologies
>strip mall office in Long Island
>no suits, no MBAs
>hire physicists, astronomers, codebreakers
>Wall Street experience? disqualifying

1988:
>launch Medallion Fund
>close it to outsiders almost immediately
>only employees can invest
>this matters

the method:
>find patterns humans can't see
>trade thousands of times a day
>tiny edge × massive volume × time = infinite money
>nobody knows exactly how
>employees sign insane NDAs
>secrets go to the grave

the returns:
>66% annually before fees
>39% after fees
>for 30+ years
>not a single losing year
>2008 financial crisis: +82.4%
>best track record in history
>better than Buffett, Soros, everyone
>not even close

the money:
>net worth hits $31 billion
>all from math
>no oil, no inheritance
>just patterns in the noise

tragedy:
>son Paul died in 1996 bicycle accident
>son Nicholas drowns in 2003
>two sons gone
>pour billions into autism research, math education, basic science

May 2024:
>die at 86
>never wrote a memoir
>never explained how Medallion works
>never needed credit

the codebreaker who cracked the market.

66% a year.
30 years.

the greatest investor who ever lived
and nobody knows how he did it.

[100% Redress @Tina30768824]

The most beautiful thing you could ever see in your life happened in Australia, and it was captured with a mobile phone camera from a train, in very bad weather! The question is where is the media coverage for such a great event?
But we can help make the whole world see it

[Eric Nelligan @eric_nelligan]

Just so people are aware;

Up to a year ago Ireland was not in the EU migration pact, we would not have had to take migrants nor pay a financial contribution.

FG & FF signed 🇮🇪 up without consulting the people.

How would you have voted?

[Lewis Bowden @LewisBowden_]

Wait until you see who’s he’s talking too 😂😂😂

[CLG Dhún na nGall @officialdonegal]

Michael Murphy Sports and leisure Under 21 B winners 🏆

Congratulations to @clgardanratha 👏👏👏

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

Did Paschal Donohue buy himself the job with the World bank with €141 million of Irish peoples money ??

[ZZ Flop ✡️🇮🇪 @ZzVvbbbbn]

The man who signed off on the most expensive hospital in human history, which is still incomplete and running at twice the cost of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is Ireland's new finance minister

[Nicholas Maguire @nikymack]

@Mericamemed @CJ_Lesnar 🔥

[Dr. Marcus De Brun @indepdubnrth]

If the 10yr old child was NOT under the care of TUSLA- if she belonged to a family from Malahide, Skerries or one of the leafy suburbs in South Dublin, I can assure you- Ministers O'callaghan and Foley would have been asked to resign already and there would be a very different type of coverage on RTE.

[Kirk_Loco @Polito_loco]

🚨A FAMILY MEMBER OF THE 10 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS VICTIM OF A SEXUAL ASSAULT HAS BRAVELY TAKEN TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO SPEAK OUT

This video needs to go viral - PLEASE SHARE!

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Leaked documents reveal Boris Johnson received £1mil to ruin the peace process between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul 2022.

He did this on request of British and American Arms manufacturers.

[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

I'm actually loving this election. Even the blind can now see the level running this country in and behind the scenes. It's hilarious. Inept isn't a strong enough word. They're idiots.