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  2. General Post Office, Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The General Post Office ( GPO) is the headquarters of Hongkong Post. Built in 1976, it is located at Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong. The office was adjacent to the former Star Ferry Pier, and it is adjacent to Jardine House and the International Finance Centre. The current building occupied a seafront location until 2007, since when ...

  3. List of people on the postage stamps of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The goal was to support the Beijing bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics. [8] The people featured on the stamps included Zhang Yimou, Ge You, Mao Amin, Gong Li, Yang Lan, Zhao Wei, and Zhang Ziyi. [8] On 8 November 2005, the Hongkong Post released a set of stamps in a collection titled "Hong Kong Pop Stars" ( Chinese: 香港流行歌星 ). [11]

  4. New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI ...

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    The product gives customers access to Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs instances in cluster sizes of one to 64 instances with 8 GPUs per instance. They can reserve time for up to 14 days in one-day ...

  5. Postage stamps and postal history of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The postal system in the British colony of Hong Kong began in 1841 when the Royal Mail established the first General Post Office in the region. [1] [2] Between 1841 and 1862, no stamps were issued, and postmarks were used to certify payment of the postage instead. [3] [4] The earliest postmarks were used by military field offices, and read ...

  6. Hare quota - Wikipedia

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    The Hare quota is the total number of votes divided by the number of seats to be filled. The Hare quota was used in the original proposal for a single transferable vote system, and is still occasionally used, although it has since been largely supplanted by the Droop quota . The quota continues to be used in setting electoral thresholds, as ...

  7. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  8. Hackers steal $200M from crypto company Mixin | TechCrunch

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    Hong Kong-based crypto company Mixin announced on Sunday that it was breached and that the hackers stole around $200 million. “In the early morning of September 23, 2023 Hong Kong time, the ...

  9. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    This picture shows clockwise from top left: An Arithmometer, a Comptometer, a Dalton adding machine, a Sundstrand, and an Odhner Arithmometer. A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a ...