Wouldn't it be better strategy to be as public as possible with this? To start a competitive situation where prospective acquirers would want to get to the tech first before their competitors?
Well, F1 does. I'm fairly sure FoundationDB did too. It isn't incompatible--I'd argue joins are natural for certain tasks, and certainly reduce developer load, especially if the latency isn't a driving priority.
Yes, that's SQL, but the term nosql was always orthogonal to the priorities of the movement (horizontal scalability).
I doubt you'll notice this but blacklisting new users like me -- so that my comments are always shown at the bottom of a thread and never publicly -- has the opposite effect of what you're intending. It pushes good people away.
Good people won't keep creating new hackernews accounts to figure out which combination of HN activity won't blacklist them. They'll leave. Possibly taking HN's users with them when they create the next HN.
We don't do that in general. Your comments were getting caught by a software filter—there are a few of those that apply to new accounts, mostly because of past abuse by trolls. I've marked your account legit so this won't happen to it again.
Like Oculus did and got bought by FB.