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Abrecht··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Good point. That's why I listed voting and jury duty, I was summoned to serve on a jury multiple times, and I always feel weirdly excluded when I have to explain that I'm not eligible. I know it can be a burden though..

At the airport, citizens and legal residents always share a line, in my experience. We tried to maintain Global Entry for the whole family for a while, but as the entry process got streamlined for citizens and GC holders over the years, the advantages of that vanished.

Abrecht··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I have a Greencard and would become eligible to apply for citizenship this month. I wonder what the opinions are here on the pros and cons of that. Generally, regarding most practical aspects of daily life, being permanent resident seems pretty much equivalent to that of an US citizen.

Pros:

- can vote

- can get security clearance, potentially more income

- even long periods abroad do not bear the risk of loosing privilege

- can do jury duty

Cons:

- need to do jury duty

- need to declare income to IRS regardless of residency

- potentially be taxed by IRS

Any other cons I'm not aware of? I heard that getting rid of the US citizenship (e.g. for tax reasons) will make it hard to get a visa ever again.

Abrecht··on How to make a camera like on Times Square out of Raspberry
I'm curious what the title might be referring to? I'm sure there's a bunch of cameras at Times Square at any time.
Abrecht··on Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
> "Cameras are set in China at 2.8 meters above the ground. That means they won't be able to capture human faces. That's a rule.

I'm confused.

Abrecht··on Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
Yeah, its one of the handful of programs I paid for and well worth it.
Abrecht··on Ask HN: Current state of programming embedded devices?
Hi, I made a few devices like that in the medical sector. Back then it was Windows CE, today Linux would be the way to go i guess. If you are like me, using Raspberry pi & co after decades of windows development, check out VisualGDB. Microsoft recently released a similar product as native Visual Studio Plugin. I understand they plan to support cross compiling as well. That will be so awesome.