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Sirum (YC W15) Is Hiring Software and QA Engineers with Pharmacy Experience
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Sirum (YC W15) Is Hiring Software and QA Engineers with Pharmacy Experience
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Sirum (YC W15) Is Hiring Software Engineers with Pharmacy Experience
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Sirum (YC W15) is hiring folks with pharmacy experience
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by akircher 6y ago
SIRUM | Ops, Developers, Sales, Support, Pharmacy | Palo Alto, Atlanta, Remote | https://www.sirum.org/about#careers SIRUM (YC W15 Nonprofit) is making medications affordable for all. We’re a small (~25) but quickly growing
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Sirum (YC W15) is hiring to help make medications affordable for all
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring engineers to improve healthcare for families(sirum.org)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable(sirum.org)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable(sirum.org)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable(sirum.org)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable(sirum.org)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) is hiring developers to save medicine to save lives(sirum.breezy.hr)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring fullstack engineers to make medicine affordable(sirum.breezy.hr)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring back end engineer to automate a pharmacy(sirum.breezy.hr)
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring full-stack engineer to make medicine affordable(sirum.breezy.hr)
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by akircher 6y ago
I would add a self-selection bias for people who decide to pursue a career in policing.
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by akircher 6y ago
SIRUM (YC W15) | Engineer #1 (Node, SPAs, PHP) | Full-Time | https://sirum.org SIRUM circumvents the traditional medication supply chain by connecting people with surplus medications. Our goal is to leverage the ~$10B of surplus
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Sirum (YC W15) gets unused pills to help cut costs on medication [video](today.com)
6 points by akircher 7y ago|2 comments
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by akircher 7y ago
Apache's CouchDB is currently planning their v4 release to be based on FoundationDB
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by akircher 8y ago
Founder of a YC non-profit, SIRUM, here. We and most of the other non-profits that have gone through YC all have open sourced our software development. It's a small group of tech focused startups (we have all mostly done fastforward.o
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by akircher 8y ago
This is great news. An amazing team with a good solution to a huge problem. I look forward to following your progress.
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Unsubsidized Obamacare plans are leading to political tensions(nytimes.com)
2 points by akircher 9y ago|2 comments
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MLK Day: Why racial segregation continues to exist today(npr.org)
1 points by akircher 10y ago|0 comments
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Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water(en.wikipedia.org)
91 points by akircher 10y ago|38 comments
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by akircher 11y ago
We had some concerns that drug manufacturers would think that we were cannibalizing their revenue, however, the medicine is going to the uninsured or people who could not afford their co-pay or deductible so that concern never seemed to mat
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Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) helps start first free pharmacy in California(link.sirum.org)
17 points by akircher 11y ago|2 comments
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by akircher 12y ago
It's refreshing to hear that at least one country seems to have solved this problem. Here in the US we have a whole industry of Reverse Distributors (Stericycle, Genco, INMAR) whose job is to sort and then incinerate unused medicine.
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by akircher 12y ago
A lot of the medication at these institutions are bubble packed, so you could donate the last 2 in those cases. Thankfully this is the vast majority of our volume right now. If it's an open bottle it would depend on the type of donor
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by akircher 12y ago
If you can overcome the high capital costs, I think it could be very successful. You may want to check out One World Health which is a nonprofit drug development organization that does incredible work as well.
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by akircher 12y ago
State laws have a lot of safeguards built-in to ensure all the medicine is safe. For example, all the medicine donated must be checked by a pharmacist to ensure that it is unopened, unexpired, from an eligible licensed facility. We also us

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