[justin66]

> the outcome of that was that Jason opted to berate and belittle me.

If when communicating with him you trivialized the loss of a couple dozen large containers of historical IEEE-related documents that he saved, packed up and rented a truck to deliver as "just a box of magazines," I bet he did berate you.

[soraminazuki]

It might've been worse than "just a box of magazines." Here's one not so subtly comparing it to garbage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40021590

[philpem]

OP was talking about the boxes, I was saying why would you throw good boxes away?