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Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow? [closed]

Following a comment I received on this: Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow? For example, questions that have answers on the Pytorch forums, such as this one. ...
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Do I need to give attribution if I use Stack Overflow for learning new things?

Suppose I a find solution to my problem on Stack Overflow. Do I need to give attribution to the particular question that helped me? The license at the bottom says "you need to give attribution", but I ...
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A user copy-pasting answers without proper attribution [duplicate]

I came across this user's profile while I was going through the close-votes queue and most if not all answers seem to be copied from other Stack Overflow answers or from external sources. This is a ...
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Copying parts of others' replies into own replies

It has just happened to me in the thread below that there was an answer which had several mistakes, and there was no reusable bit inside in the initial version. How to check the selected version of ...
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Do Stack Overflow answers require original content?

I just answered a question on Stack Overflow and it left me wondering if it was a "good" answer. I know that my answer works and I use it in my own code, but all I really did was quote the relevant ...
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A user is taking questions from MSDN forums, asking them on SO, and posting the SO answers back on MSDN

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3816683/index-to-speed-up-delete taken from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/transactsql/thread/00667b94-1fb5-4238-b169-c596a2ae25ed https://...