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J. M. Korhonen
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J. M. Korhonen's personal blog at jmkorhonen.net covers science and philosophy. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “On the Kremlin’s Imperialism”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one relevant comment links the author's 2022 analysis of the Kremlin's imperialism around Russia's invasion of Ukraine, offered as a blog-form alternative. The other comment is an unrelated PhD debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Because specialization is for insects.
Most-linked posts?
- On the Kremlin’s Imperialism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Or in blog form (same author): https://jmkorhonen.net/2022/02/23/on-the-kremlins-imperialis...
Comment linking /2022/02/23/on-the-kremlins-imperialism/
on “Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack”Submitted My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet) as a story · 296 points
HN discussion>I'm not sure how you conclude that the PhD has been earned. I didn't say it was. I stated the thesis was finished. These are distinct. The latter requires a defense of the thesis before a committee, and in pretty much every decent PhD program, is merely a formality since the advisor should not let the student defend until he/she is ready. I had my thesis finished long before I did my defense, and I passed that mont…
Comment linking /2017/12/15/necessity-is-the-mother-of-inventors-my-phd-lecture/
on “My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)”Submitted I’m no longer advocating for clean energy; here’s why (2017) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Sustainable Civilizations Must Be Democratic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Kremlin’s Imperialism as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin is not a good fit for renewable energy. Here’s why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I believe we ought to build a spacefaring civilisation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power and the (European) anti-nuclear power movement (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The possible anatomy of coming climate change trials as a story · 1 points
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