It must be a YMMV type of thing. I know with BOFA when I was being added to my wife's accounts, they did a hard inquiry, which I personally thought was odd. Most of the credit unions I work with professionally do a credit check on new member applications for checking accounts.

Keep in mind that changing to a new bank that you have not had a relationship with will result in a hard inquiry on your credit, which will take two years to come off. If you have had a relationship with the financial institution before and have something like only a credit card open with them, try to negotiate if…

I've got an E3200 that I installed DD-WRT on but it's been a while since I've tinkered with it, since it has had like 370+ days of uptime. My problem with the E3200 and the DD-WRT build I have is that dual band is not supported— did that get sorted out and DD-WRT is now supported on Cisco/Linksys routers?

I feel the same way. I come from a family of legal immigrants who struggled incredibly and my wife is a legal immigrant; we are currently in the permanent resident green card phase. We faced a lot of challenges to do things the right way. My wife had to pay 300% more in "international student" tuition, compared…

Work for stuff? FALSE ADVERTISINGS. I'll just go back to where I came from. J/K, I DEMAND FREE STUFF.

I know, it's bullshit. But the political reality is that the overwhelming number of illegal alien enablers in California find deportation "morally difficult". They argue that 'deportation breaks up families', which is a politically crafted message to tug on the strings of naive, bleeding heart voters, while…

Viva los Estados Unidos! Tierra de la gratis!

Because there have been generations of illegal immigrants that have had children on US soil who are legally citizens of the country— they grow up and become voters, who vote for representatives who cater to the specific interests of their immediate families/race. Deportation is logistically problematic, morally…

Los Angeles is the hit and run capital of the nation. Not a day goes by where you don't read about a hit and run. Something like 50% of all reported accidents involve a hit and run driver; a good number of them being unlicensed drivers, who coincidentally are overrepresented by illegal immigrants.

I like my red sauce with a bunch of shit floating in it. Especially when it's ground beef (bolognese), or bacon (carbonara).

Up to 60 days in jail, probation and community service is pretty lenient.

I agree with Empire. The scope was incredible. That moment you are playing as the Maratha Empire and you get war elephants.

Wow. Lemme guess, you use Russia Today as your source of news.

I hate it. It's very boy racer, like the WRX STi. What happened to being clean and competent?

Luke ghost writes for Patricia these days.

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I wish I could see the breakdown of pizza data— Costco's take out pizza has got to be one of the outliers with the best size:price ratios.

You're partially correct on your redline analogy, except that it applies to slow chargers as well— Lithium ion batteries can reduce in longevity when they are kept plugged in and hovering at 100% charge, regardless of slow or fast charge. The ideal operation range of these batteries is between 35-80% charge.

A lot of smartphone's OEM batteries are able to accept up to 2A. It says it right on the battery what the limit is, as do the tech sheets that come with the phone.

This. Plastic containers are such a PITA to clean.