I wanted to buy a few parts so after searching I came upon this website. I want to know if this website is fake so which website is appropriate for asking this question?
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Stuff like polls, recommendations based on subjective constraints, puzzles, webcomics etc. do not belong on the serious main SE sites, where professionals should be considered at work and having just a few spare minutes ("code's compiling") to answer questions, so they should not be distracted by such things. However, I'd also like to have a home for these things still using the SE engine. For the reason I mentioned before, this needs to be a separate place though. Let's call it four.[sitename-here].com.
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I recently posted a question about using a site structure similar to what's shown below.   example.com/bikes/foo-bike/wheels    //content about foo-bike's wheels example.com/bikes/bar-bike/wheels    //content about bar-bike's wheels   If two bikes are at comparable price points, it's likely that they will have similar components. Should I be concerned if multiple bikes have similar content and the only major difference between them is their component name?  The website I'm creating is a user guide for bikes. With the URL structure above I'm a little worried that I run the risk for creating duplicate content.
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Bought some "music speaker" thingies, some with bluetooth and some without. They are cheap, for sure, about 3 or 4 euro's. With some capacitor tweaks, they seem to be very plausibel to use (why is the output on these cheap things always tiny and limited?).  On these devices they use a very tiny, nice and bright display, with 7 legs, charlieplexed I suppose (wiggle it to see any screen update), 35 segments. Cannot read the number on the used chip (it's from JL), very hard to recognize (even when using a microscope) and the display doesn't have any partnumber on it either, however, these seem to be identical except the face plate on these components.   The displays are very interesting, just 7 pins to do the display job, in just one package. I want to buy these things (cannot find it, doesn't know the name and cannot find a datasheet either).   Next thing I want to do is to interface with these devices by reading the display (with a MCU for example) so I am able to read the state of the device and what it is doing. This is a difficult task without any datasheet.   Does somebody know the name of this component, is there a datasheet available somewhere?  Photo gallery of the display:          Product picture:
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I am thinking about ordering up some parts for every day use. I am thinking about making one big purchase so as to minimize on shipping and other charges.   What are some of the components that any electronics hobbyist should have around ALL the time?  To put a little more scope: typically working with Arduino's, PICs and sensors. 5V - low current projects.   Looking for: component, value or range (if any), manufacturer (optional)   For example -  Resistors, 1K through 100K 5W
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Recently I've bought an inkjet printer HP Deskjet 1010 for my personal use. I've some problem with it. On which Stack Exchange site should I ask the question about my printer?
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It's    that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for 's recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to the question, but then I looked into it more and realized there's three things that set this apart from most of the related cases that have come up:   This isn't an occasional thing -- he's posted  in the last year This isn't a random blog he writes for a fun, it's a for-profit company he  and makes money promoting I'm not willing to go through all 412, but from the sample I checked, he generally doesn't mention that the products he's recommending are his own. The site is linked from his profile, but most people aren't going to check that   Is all this considered acceptable use, or are the spam flags accurate?
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I came across the following question:    This can be easily flagged for too broad or opinion based, but I wonder on which stack-exchange site can one ask answers for such a question?
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I am selling a mower on Craigslist and I received this in a text:     FRM: Harry Luong      SUBJ: Re: Hey, is still for sale?      MSG: Great I saw the detail on the Ad and I'm okay with the price &amp; condition and i want you to consider it sold. I will be securing the payment by sending you (Bank check) Via USPS next day delivery and i will handle the Shipping my self with my private Mover that will come down there for the pick up after the check cleared. I'II need your full name and Address or po box for the check to be issued out to you Thanks   Is this a scam?
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I recently received the :     Hello!   I want to buy your 1080 ti and to be ship to my store in malaysia I will offer you the amount listed plus the shipment charges $700 all together also if there is more of it or any brand let me know. And payment via my PayPal, text me back on my business line if the item is still available ( 908.__455.__8461 ) waiting to hear back from you soon. so i can pay-in your funds thanks   Santos.   Don't worry, I am certainlly not accepting this offer.  Despite the incredibly sketchy-looking overall appearance of this message, the account that sent this is brand new, and has no feedback whatsoever. That, and the offer is simply far too good to be true makes me almost 100% certain that this offer is NOT legitimate.   Even if the sender did have an electronics store in Malaysia, there is no possible way to make a profit here buying the card I have listed and reselling it. (I assure you that a used 1080 Ti is not worth anywhere close to $1,210).  In plenty of other examples of scams on this site, when someone offers you a large amount of money to cover a supposed delivery cost, they will pretend they overpaid and request a portion of it back via a non-refunable means (pre-paid gift cards, Western Union, etc). However, since the transaction would take place using eBay through PayPal, wouldn't ebay's dispute resolution process prevent the buyer from simply being able to dispute the PayPal charge and get their $700 back?  I did notice though that the message is blatantly trying to get me to arrange the sale outside of ebay (seriously... who writes a phone number in such an awkward and obviously filter-circumventing manner?)  Perhaps ebay's ordinary systems would prevent this scam from working, and that is why the buyer wants to be contacted directly?  How is this scam supposed to work?
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I'm really worried about professionalism.  My site would be something like http://mywebsite.uy instead of http://mywebsite.com.uy.  What do you think about this practice? What should I have in mind at the moment of choosing one?
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I need to buy ubuntu 13.04 (or above) DVD, But it is not in the store... Why is that?? And i need to take it via post how can I Do it and.. I need to know the cost. I have some other ubuntu Accessories to buy.. I'am in Sri Lanka
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I know Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are the owners or creators because I came by the site from reading their blogs.  Who else works for Stack Overflow in here?  Does Jon Skeet? There's also a fair number of 100k+ users now.  The answers from them are quite informative. It seems that to get that many points in such a short amount of time (the site's only been online for 2-3 years?), you would need to be spending quite a lot of time, regularly on here, so either they   Have a ton of spare time either at work or outside of work Are unemployed (seems unlikely given their breadth of knowledge) Work for Stack Overflow and their job is partially to post answers.   These guys seem too knowledgeable so reason 1 or reason 2 seem unlikely, so I suspect reason 3.
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Recently, I've seen many questions with this structure:   a wall of code a request for the community to debug it by inspection   You can find a nice selection .  I offer, as a thesis, that these questions are not consistent with the stated goals of SO. They do not, usually, create a resource of use to other people.   As a community, we could politely but firmly tell these askers to do enough of their own work to come up with a concrete, specific, programming question, other than 'can someone tell me what's wrong with this?'  Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic to people with problems. I have not been downvoting or voting to close these, because the community seems to be inclined in general to be helpful. I'm asking, are we really doing the right thing by encouraging the site to populate with these?  If the consensus is 'yes' then I'll just slink back to my cave. I'm not interested in starting a campaign here.
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I think the picture pretty much explains it all.  Not sure if this is the case for all SE sites, but this is from Stack Overflow.
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There really does need to be some descriptions here. The two sites seem so similar that I'm unsure which is the proper one to use for certain math issues. In what situations would you use  over ?
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Where can I find a list of all the Stack Exchange sites?  I need to ask a question about cars (where my total knowledge is about zero) but I can't find a cars Stack Exchange site - tried guessing all the obvious (and pun based) names.  I assume the list of a dozen or so at the bottom of this page is only a subset? There must be a site on a topic as geeky as cars!  A list of future/beta sites would also be useful - I found a few on topics I'm interested in only after they had been up for a while.
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I have answered . My answer had links to valuable information in context of the problem, but the conclusion was useless (striked through in my answer). Another user gave correct solution to the problem in question, in the comment to the answer.  I decided to quote his comment, so my answer would be more likely upvoted. (I could say also: to make my answer complete and more informational; but to be honest, in the end it is because of the reputation :) )  Although I quoted it, because of the reputation issue, I'm not sure how ethical it is. On the other hand, reputation is just a mechanism for getting quality answers to clearly stated practical questions, in short for the site to have the qualitiy and valuable practical information.   So, my questions are:   is this action ethical? is this action acceptable? does this action indeed add to the quality of solution of the problem in question (e.g for some unknown (probably, but not neccessary, non SO user) surfer who stumbles upon it searching for the solution)?