John Robertson, an economist in Harare, says the country's hyper-inflation is being driven primarily by the government borrowing money to cover recurring costs such as wages and operating expenses.

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But the design that is best to win that prize is not necessarily the best design to operate as a commercial vehicle for space tourism, where having low recurring costs is more vital.

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"With the cloud you have more recurring costs you can finance out of operating funds, as opposed to digging into your capital fund, and you have way less responsibility for maintaining, upgrading and protecting all this hardware every few years, " says Mr. Daher.

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If your recurring income is smaller than those medical costs, some of your medical deduction could go to waste.

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First, non-GAAP operating income excludes some costs, namely, SBC, that are recurring.

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Here, CAC is cost of customer acquisition, MRR is monthly recurring revenue and software margin is the cash they keep for each customer after accounting for support and other costs.

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