"The Praxeology of Privacy" goes out today, the third edition. A new chapter publishes every day at 1600 UTC for the next month. Print edition arrives in a couple of days. Today: endorsements from Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, Erik Voskuil, and Stephan Kinsella, Paul Rosenberg's foreword, and the preface. The book joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk tradition on a single claim. State predation depends on state observation. When observation gets cheaper, predation gets cheaper; when observation gets more expensive, predation recedes. The engineering that raises the cost of observation is what this book is about. View article →

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Yes indeed! It's been on my reading list since the first version was released😉 I might hold out for the physical or audio version though, can't force myself to read long texts from a screen TBH. Extra kudos to @Max for releasing it copyright free, of course! 👊 Will definitely feature it on @Open Source Culture sooner rather than later.
Thanks! The audio book is already recorded, will take a bit until edit is finished. Then it'll be on podcast & blossom
A whole bunch has changed since the first edition, in hindsight I'm kinda embarrassed how bad v1 was... So I'd definitely abandon that and check out the new one.
hey @Max i've started translating the book and made it up to the chapter 5, but 2 months ago i took a break for another project—does it make sense to continue or is the third edition so different that it deserves to start over from the beginning? is this the final version? thx
Thanks for doing this! Which language? A lot changed and improved in v3, and this one will be stable for a while. So I'd suggest to start over, sorry about that!