* Farmers having runaway water with lots of nutrition makes algae bloom
* Hotter summer also lead to more algae
* More unstable climate with flash rain makes sewage seep out into the fjord when the water handling stations can't handle the flow
* Fishing boats are destroying the sea bed
If this isn't turned around, our nice fjord will soon be dead, and possibly not safe to use.
Yeah there's this focus on cities where things are getting cleaned up but in rural areas the fertilizer and intensive agriculture makes the rivers (and fjords?) toxic. Check out the Des Moines river in Iowa. Seems absolutely insane that a rich and ostensibly well-run country like Norway isn't prioritizing health and environmental safety for its citizens.
While city folks like to blame farmers for the problems in Iowa, the soil in Iowa naturally makes nitrates which runs off into the streams after every rain. We have death reports from the early 1800s that on rereading with a modern eye make it clear that the problem was drinking water with high nitrates. This is both what makes Iowa such great farm country, and what makes streams harmful.
Not that fertilizer isn't making things worse (though sometimes it makes things better - farmers don't want their expensive fertilizer to wash away and so look for ways to keep it on the field), but it isn't the whole story.
Living on west coast of Sweden, our family went to Stockholm this summer and as the temperature rose, we asked were to go and swim and basically no one knew and we didn’t see people doing it either.
That's rather weird, it's one of the most popular summer activities in Stockholm. I personally swim almost everywhere around the city with friends during almost the whole summer, just need to check beforehand on Havs och Vattenmyndigheten daily updates if any bathing areas have been considered inappropriate that day [0].
Most areas are considered appropriate for most of the summer in the inner city, while lakes are everywhere outside the small centre, and quite many are private enough that you can find spots to go skinny dipping without a second thought.
Some popular in inner city: Tanto strandbad, Långholmsbadet, Smedsuddsbadet, Fredhällsbadet, Kristinebergsbadet, Brunnsviksbadet. Plenty of folks swim during hot periods in summer.
Yes, we went to Tanto but considering how much water that Stockholm is surrounded with, I can’t say it’s very accessible. That is also the view of some friends living there.
If it's a beach that's appropriate for smaller kids you're after with shallow water, yes you probably have to go to the more prepared beaches with sand that has shallow water a bit out.
Many places in central Stockholm have been built out from natural beaches by claiming water so the water will be deep at those points (probably held quays that was used for transports before trucks took over), but even in many places like that nobody would bat an eye if someone took a non-nudist swim.
Apart from the extremes most local teens and upwards will find cliffs by the water, as mentioned not appropriate for smaller kids and seniors as it's adjacent to deep water but perfect otherwise.
Well now I feel compelled to make a Gothenburg-centric remark, ha ha.
I literally swam not far from the archipelago pier last weekend, and there are many swimmable lakes around the city. Since we're talking about swimming in the city, the best option is likely the brand new public spot in Frihamnen [1].
Other countries in the EU, however, can sue ireland for taxes they missed out on. Which is probably what will happen. The money will be divided up over many countries.
On what basis exactly? Income is taxed where the company (Apple subsidiary) is headquartered, so they would have to prove Apple would have chosen a different country, which is not going to happen.
Some sysbench benchmark results are here comparing results on AWS, GCP, and Azure. Interesting to see AWS is better at lower low load (due to better interrupt handling in VMs?), while GCP is best at highest loads.
Disclaimer: developer of Hops.
This blog basically argues that systems like Horovod (Ring AllReduce) are architecturally superior to Parameter Server models (like TensorFlowOnSpark).
